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Sibling Rivalry is a big problem in families that needs to be addressed very early in the process. There are three strategies I found to be very powerful.

1. When one child is mean to another, don’t lavish all your attention on the child that hurt their sibling by yelling at that child. Go directly to the child that is hurt and give them the major share of you attention. Make sure that there is no “reward” for that behavior. It is amazing to watch how that child seem a little deflated because they did not get what they may have ultimately wanted, your undivided attention.
2. A fun exercise to get siblings to show their respect is to simply have them plan an imaginary extravagant birthday party for each other. Help them be outrageously generous to their sibling. What would the cake be made of? How enormous would it be? What movie stars would attend? How many presents would be there? What would be the best one? What would it be wrapped in? Where would it happen? It is a fun way to flatter and respect a sibling.
3. Decide on a family goal and set up a reward that they all the siblings want to achieve. Make it something they can really do and set them up to cheer each other on and celebrate each other’s successes so they all work towards the same goal! It is a delight to see them help each other!

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