Siblings Without Rivalry; How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
Faber, Adele, and Mazlish, Elaine
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, N.Y., 2008
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xvii, [3], 249, [1] pages. Cover has wear and soiling. Some moisture staining. Illustrations. Also includes Additional Reading that may be helpful, as well as an index. Chapters include How This Book Came to Be, and Authors' Note, as well as Brothers and Sisters--Past and Present; Not Till the Bad Feelings Come Out.; The Perils of Comparisons; Equal is Less; Siblings in Roles; Freeing Children to Change; No More Problem Children; When the Kids Fight--How to Intervene Helpfully, How to Step In So We Can Step Out; and Making Peace with the Past. Afterword for the New Edition: Coping With Young Rivals; Home Alone; More Ways to Encourage Good Feelings Between Brothers and Sisters. Adele Faber (born January 12, 1928) is an American author. She writes books about parenting and families and is an expert on communication between adults and children. Elaine Mazlish (31 March 1925 - 31 October 2017) was an American author, parent educator who wrote about helping parents and teachers to communicate better with children. She also arranged various workshops based on the teachings in her books. Mazlish received a degree in theater arts from New York University. Before spending full time raising her three children she taught and developed drama programs for children in settlement houses in New York City. This book guides the way to family peace and tranquillity with humor and compassion. Illustrated, action-oriented, and easy to understand, it is packed with sensitive yet sensible ways to turn quarreling siblings and frustrated parents into an open, communicative family. Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish turned their minds to the battle of the siblings. Parents themselves, they were determined to figure out how to help their children get along. The result was Siblings Without Rivalry. This wise, groundbreaking book gives parents the practical tools they need to cope with conflict, encourage cooperation, reduce competition, and make it possible for children to experience the joys of their special relationship. With humor and understanding-much gained from raising their own children-Faber and Mazlish explain how and when to intervene in fights, provide suggestions on how to help children channel their hostility into creative outlets, and demonstrate how to treat children unequally and still be fair.…
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- Title
- Siblings Without Rivalry; How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
- Author
- Faber, Adele, and Mazlish, Elaine
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York, N.Y.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0380799006
- ISBN 13
- 9780380799008
- Edition
- Later printing.
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"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.
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