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How to Deal with Sibling Rivalry
Before you had a second child, did you have visions of your children happily playing together with nary a squabble, only to discover that they fight more often than they get along peacefully? Do the...
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A Healthy Dose of Sibling Rivalry
Competition is a part of life. It is in the work place, in school, in sports, and even in our extra curricular activities. If you happened to have been raised with at least one sibling, then you...
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She Isn’t My Real Sister, She’s Adopted! No, My Brother is the Adopted One!
Two of our children are 10 months apart in age, so for a little over two months every year brother and sister are the same age. It so happens that their first names are very similar as well. Not a...
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Boys Will be Boys, Bonding Time Among Brothers
Why does sibling bonding time among brothers seem to usually involve wrestling on the furniture, the floor, or the ground. Inevitably, one ends up teary and in need of an ice pack. Something of mine...
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Tattling on Your Brothers and Sisters
If you are part of a large family, one thing is for sure, you can’t get away with sneaking, lying, stealing, or anything else. Whatever a child in a large family does, there always seems to be brothers...
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Will She Kill Her Sister?
A friend called me yesterday nearly hysterical. When she dropped the girls off at school she overheard the 11 year old telling the nine year old not to worry, that she would kill her when she got home....
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When Rough and Tumble Adopted Brothers Cause a Broken Femur
The adopted brothers are currently three and five. The same family adopted them each at birth and they share the same birthparents so they are brothers by birth and by adoption. The boys have always...
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The Pecking Order
Did you know that chickens really do have a “pecking order?” The dominant chicken will peck at the next lower ranked chicken and so forth down the line until the poor gal at the end is just getting...
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Bearing Wrongs Patiently
Our family is Catholic which means at this time of year (season of Lent), we each choose something to “sacrifice.” Little children do not really understand the purpose or goal of this tradition, so we...
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