Sibling Rivalry - Circle of Parents | Sharing Ideas ...

1 Sibling RivalryThe word Sibling refers to brothers and sisters, and Sibling Rivalry means the competitive feelings and actions that oftenoccur among children in a family. There are things that youcan do to try to reduce Sibling each child as an themunderstand that they are treated differently by you and have different privileges and responsibilitiesbecause they are different each child s space, toys, and time when he wants to be alone, away from his labeling or comparing one child to the feeds into their a new child comes into the family, adequately prepare the older Sibling for her new important her feel like it s her baby, too. lPlay and note when siblings are not getting along [before dinner, in the car, before bed] and plan separate quiet activities for those how you treat each child to see if you are contributing to the sure you are not playing realistic expectations of how they should get along,cooperate, share and like each reinforce them when they are getting along orwhen they solve their own each child feel special and to spend one-on-one time with each child every time out for yourself to , Sibling Rivalry is a normal and expected part of family life.

2 Circle of Parents is the National Network of Mutual Support and Self-Help Programs in Partnership with Communities, a collaborative project of Prevent ChildAbuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable. This project was made possible by Grant No. 90CA 1668 from the Children's Bureau,Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are solely the responsibility of the authors anddo not represent the official views or policies of the funding agency, nor does publication in any way constitute an endorsement by the funding agency. 2002 Prevent Child Abuse America