Parenting > Social Issues > Siblings

Living with a sibling who has special needs can be difficult for a child to deal with, day after day. This book provides anecdotal examples, self-help guidelines and practical coping techniques to promote positive, realistic attitudes as well as the benefits of having a special needs sibling. Told with both humour and honesty, Becca's stories - and her kid-tested soultions - are an inspiration to special families everywhere.

Brothers and sisters: they can make great friends, and it's nice to have someone who'll love you no matter what. But kids know siblings can be a real drag, too.
Full-color illustrations and humorous, kid-friendly text teach kids how to cope with problems of fairness, jealousy, conflict, tattling, privacy, and other things that can make having siblings so difficult. Kids learn how to cope with a new baby in the home and how to handle special situations such as siblings with special needs, step-siblings, and adopted siblings. <... read more

When parenting authorities Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish sat down to write the national bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, they found that they couldn't contain their chapter on sibling rivalry. No matter how much they tried to pare down their advice, they found the subject inexhaustible -- and their readers agreed.
The result is this seminal book -- revised and updated after more than ten years of feedback from parents' letters, TV and radio talk shows, and Faber and Mazlish's highly ... read more

"AT LAST--SOUND, PRACTICAL RELIEF <br>FOR PARENTS WITH BATTLING KIDS!
Imagine. You might never again have to hear the words: "Mummy, Ann drooled on me on purpose." You could have the answer for every "It's not fair!" your kids have ever whined at you. Constant sibling squabbling--and the ensuing demand that you pick a side, "quick"--can wear parents down and totally drain the fun right out of family life.
Now in this groundbreaking book, Dr. Anthony Wolf offers a whole new strategy for coping. In a fresh, f... read more