Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too (How to Help Your Child) - Softcover

Faber, Adele; Mazlish, Elaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853406309 ISBN 13: 9781853406300

Publisher: Piccadilly Press, 2012

Synopsis

Discover parenting experts Faber and Mazlish's tested and practical guidelines for how to cope with - and deflect - sibling rivalry. Full of humour and compassion, Siblings Without Rivalry challenges the idea that constant conflict between siblings is natural and unavoidable. With this book, you'll learn how to:
- Avoid comparisons and the perils of equality.
- Intervene helpfully and step away at the right time.
- Encourage good feeling between your children.

About this title

Product Description:

From the widely acclaimed HOW TO TALK series, discover how to cope with - and deflect - sibling rivalry.Full of humour and compassion, SIBLINGS WITHOUT RIVALRY challenges the idea that constant conflict between siblings is natural and unavoidable. With this book, you'll learn how to: * Avoid comparisons and the perils of equality. * Intervene helpfully and step away at the right time., * Encourage good feeling between your children.

Review:

"Helping your children live together so you can live too."

"The fighting drives me up the wall." ... "I get along fine with each child individually but when the two of them are together I can't stand either one of them" ... "I don't know what will happen first--either they'll kill each other or I'll kill them".

How many of you have felt like this? Be honest with yourselves. Who can remember being at loggerheads with brothers and/or sisters? Who believes that sibling rivalry is something that only happens to other people's children?

It is a widespread problem that involves competition, envy, resentment and personal frustrations to name but a few factors. Where does it all begin? What is the worst about sibling rivalry and, conversely, what is the best about it? If any of these statements strikes a chord, then read this book. It is easy to follow, humorous and sympathetic, illustrated with amusing cartoons and the authors draw on personal experiences and research findings to show ways to teach children how to get along, "to lead rivals towards peace."

The information and advice is practical and down to earth and deals with, among other things, how to resist the urge to compare, how to realise that brothers and sisters need to have their feelings about each other acknowledged and how to handle the fighting.

The main thrust of the book is to treat your children according to their individual needs, rather than absolutely equally: "Children don't need to be treated equally; they need to be treated uniquely", say Faber and Mazish. "Instead of giving equal time, give time according to need" and "Resist the urge to compare" or "Avoid unfavourable comparisons" is their main advice. With such sound, down-to-earth wisdom at the heart of the book, it is easy to see why this was number one on the New York Times best seller list and it is a book which any parent affected by sibling rivalry will find invaluable. --Susan Naylor

About the Book
"A very human book about one of the toughest problems parents have to handle." --Dr Benjamin Spock, author of the renowned Dr Spock's Baby and Child Care

About the Authors
Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish are internationally acclaimed award-winning experts who lecture and create group workshop programmes on adult/child communication. Their books have been printed in 20 languages and have sold more than three million copies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Piccadilly Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1853406309
• ISBN 13: 9781853406300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272