This is the first of a two-part best of the web on siblings and their relationships. This week we look at single-birth siblings, following up next week with multiple births (twins, triplets and more!).
Even though you may catch them bickering now and again, siblings have a unique bond. If you’ve ever worried about your young tykes getting along, you’re not alone. Their hair and eyes may look alike but it’s not as common for their personalities to match. Here are some of Ready for Ten's favourite links for parents of single-birth brothers and sisters.
Advice for arguing kids
Child Development Institute has a simple, point by point breakdown for handling sibling jealously and rivalry. There are tips for relationships across different genders, dissimilar ages and contrasting personalities.
Netmums has great advice on dealing with arguments between siblings, whether your kids are quiet types or a bit more boisterous. If these approaches differ from your solutions to playtime battles, please share your tips in the comments.
The Supernanny support site can help you feel more like a parent and less like a referee. This particular site focuses on coping with children fighting and how to deal with this when they’re at different stages of growing up. It offers insight into why kids fight and how to reconcile a relationship, from foe to friend.
Parent blogs about brothers and sisters
There are plenty of parent bloggers out there documenting life with children. Surburbanmummyuk writes about the positive effects of her daughter’s female influence on her son, even to the point where she has him requesting to do the ironing!
If you have a bigger family you’ll enjoy Mummytips's blog, where Sian discusses her family of four children and their relationships with each other. If you have a blog on parent life with siblings – small, big, loud or quiet – we would love for you to share your links in the comments.
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11 October, 2010
I say this a lot but this post couldn't have come at a better time. My older two are constantly fighting and it's a real cause of stress for my husband and I at the moment.
Our kids are five, three and one and our baby is a little young for fighting yet, although he is learning quickly how to get what he wants :-). The other two fight over everything, who sits where, who goes down the stairs first, toys, attention, books, movies the works. We seem to have tried everything we can think of to make "special" time for them both separately, together, doing fun family things, equal praise - you name it! But no matter how hard we try we can't seem to get the balance right.
Thank you for the wonderfully informative post I will take my time reading through the links you have provided and I'm sure there must be a technique or two we haven't tried yet.
Leigh
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