![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And that’s how “Siblings Without Rivalry” was born - their best-selling “guide to reducing hostility and generating goodwill between siblings.” As we’ve done with so many other books, we read it, reread it, and summed it up in about 2,000 words, so that you can be richer for its wisdom in a little over ten minutes. While Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish were writing their extremely successful 1980 “parenting bible,” “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk,” they realized that to address questions such as those above and do proper justice to the problem of raising siblings, they’d have to give it a book of its own. How can you, as a parent, find ways to reassure each of your children that they are safe, special and beloved? How do you manage your time so that you can allocate it properly among your children? How can you be sure that you’ve never neglected the needs of any of your kids, while simultaneously appropriately tending to the needs of the more needful among them? As difficult as it might be to raise one child into a healthy, smart and independent adult, it seems to be even more difficult to achieve that when another child comes along the way - and sometimes, even another, and another, and another. ![]()
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