Taming Sibling Squabbles
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
04/02/25
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Do your kids fight? Does it drive you crazy. Join us to learn some helpful tips for handling sibling rivalry and fighting. Our guest is Dr. Laura Markham, a clinical psychologist and author of several books, including Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids and Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How To Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why do siblings squabble?
- How is sibling rivalry and sibling fighting a good thing for our kids?
- How to teach sharing?
- What are the warning signs that a sibling fight has gone beyond a useful tool for developing those skills? When do we step in to stop sibling squabbles?
- What’s an effective way for parents to step into these sibling fights?
- How to handle rivalry based on one child thinking you favor the other?
- What about verbal aggression, name-calling, etc?
- A struggle common to kids impacted by trauma is a delay in emotional and social skill development. Identifying and managing internal discomfort can be challenging for our kids. Or all feelings are disproportionate to their situation (both bigger and smaller or shut down).
- Can you speak to what helps kids develop these skills outside the moments of conflict?
- What practical strategies can you offer to help parents cultivate satisfying, loving relationships between siblings?
- Would you offer a word about self-care for parents raising kids who fight all the time?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Question: I wish I had known what to expect when a child with trauma hit the teen years. Maybe a book suggestion of what to expect or resources on what may show up and how to handle it. Puberty and the teen years have hit our family HARD. I also notice other families with adopted children going through the same or similar things. ~Rebecca from Kansas
Resources:
- Therapy Resources for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Families
- Center for Parent and Teen Communication
- Parenting in the Eye of the Storm: The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Navigating the Teen Years
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Question: Can you talk about how being transracially adopted effects how adoptee’s children were raised? Both of my parents were transracially adopted and I don’t feel like there’s anyone else who can share this unique experience and I just want to understand better.
Resources:
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- Raising a Child Through Transracial Adoption (Resource page)
- Suggested Books for Adults on Transracial Adoption
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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