Six sessions that cover the skills
that help your children get along.
The goal of these sessions is to help
you help your children learn to live together (peacefully!).
The skills reduce friction and make harmony possible.

SESSION ONE:
Helping Siblings Deal with their Feelings about each other

What happens to your children when their hostile feelings toward each other are ignored or denied? Four specific methods for helping children express their negative feelings to each other, without doing damage.

SESSION TWO:
Keeping Children Separate and Unequal

How siblings react when compared to each other – favourably or unfavourably. Effective alternatives to comparisons. How siblings feel about always being treated equally. Ways to treat children unequally and still be fair.

SESSION THREE:
Siblings in Roles

Why your children are often cast, and cast each other into different roles. A look at how powerfully these roles affect their relationships with each other. Skills that free each child to become his or her whole self.

SESSION FOUR:
When the Kids fight

What can you do when fighting breaks out between children? An exploration of commonly used strategies that backfire. A chance to practice the skills that reduce rage and motivate children to work out their own solutions.

SESSION FIVE:
Problem Solving

A method for helping children deal with the problems they can not work out by themselves. A simple ten-step approach that enables adults to sit down with the young combatants, who then move toward resolving their conflicts.

SESSION SIX:
A Final Review (for participants who attend all sessions only)

Time to review and consolidate your skills. Exercises give you practice in applying everything you learned to potentially explosive situations. Finally, an opportunity to take a second look at your own adult sibling relationships from your new perspective.