Family Reducing Competition

Family Reducing Competition

• Talk with each child about their interests.
• Encourage them to talk about their feelings.
• Allow each to do things which interest them whether the other children are interested in those things or not.
• Help them see and know what they are good at and how they are special.
• Accept each child as a unique human being rather then saying things like 'Your sister/brother doesn't behave like that!
• Give each child experiences and things which they are interested in rather than just the same for each child.
• Try to spend time with each child by themselves as well as with siblings.
• Avoid comparing children.
• Have everyone be responsible for their own behaviour. And remember it's their behaviour (squabbling, fighting) you don't like - not the child.
• Always make sure your children know you love them, even when you reprimand them.
• Reduce boredom by having things to do.
• Make sure each child has their own space and can be alone when they want to.
• Remember that not everything can or should be shared.

·         Be confident that love will grow.

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