Siblings: a parenting guide to managing sibling rivalry and raising happy children - Softcover

Blair, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910336254 ISBN 13: 9781910336250

Publisher: White Ladder, 2017

Synopsis

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<strong>Siblings</strong> – your guide to positive parenting and how to
handle sibling rivalry and jealousy. Here is the essential parenting book which
will guide you to calmer, easier, happier parenting and help you raise siblings
without rivalry. <p></p><p></p>

Clinical psychologist Linda Blair takes a
positive approach to this subject – instead of trying to eliminate the natural
rivalry that occurs or striving for an unrealistic idyll of a calm,
non-confrontational household, she teaches parents how to use sibling
interactions to build emotional intelligence and good social skills. Through a
framework of core principles, Linda guides you through potential issues towards
parenting without power struggles and raising happy children.  <p></p><p></p>

Find out how to:
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<li>Manage the
powerful effect of the age gap and birth order</li>

<li>Deal with
disagreements and stop arguments</li>

<li>Alleviate
competition and jealousy</li>

<li>Encourage
communication and cooperation</li>

<li>How to introduce
step-siblings</li>

<li>Set your children
up for strong, lifelong relationships</li></ul></p>

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<strong>Siblings</strong> turns sibling rivalry on its head offering parents a
practical positive approach to bringing up children and teenagers and
understanding the relationships into adulthood. This
essential guide to positive parenting will show you how to handle sibling
rivalry to create lifelong loving bonds. 

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‘The
parenting handbook I've been looking for - this book is long overdue’</p><p>

<strong>Victoria Harper,
<em>The
Telegraph</em></strong></p><p></p><p>

 

‘I love
this book. It's essential reading for siblings and for anyone who has to deal
with siblings.'</p><p>

<strong>Cathy Rentzenbrink,
<em>The Last Act of Love</em></strong> </p><p></p>

About this title

About the Author

Linda Blair is a Chartered clinical psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a Chartered scientist. She's published four books - this is her fifth - on child development, parenting, stress management and mindfulness.

Edition details

• Publisher: White Ladder
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910336254
• ISBN 13: 9781910336250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256