CONCERN updates parenting tips: A Cease Fire in the Battle of Sibling Rivalry

Summer may be heating up, but that doesn’t mean temperatures have to rise between brothers and sisters. Sibling fights will probably never completely disappear, but CONCERN, a child welfare agency offering foster care, delinquency services and counseling, offers the following 10 categories to help call a truce between warring brothers and sisters:

• Define household rules
• Don’t buy into the argument
• Acknowledge children’s feelings
• Teach children communication skills
• Teach children negotiation skills
• Reinforce positive behavior
• Create positive experiences between siblings
• Treat children as individuals
• Spend individual time with each child
• Teach your children that life is not always “fair”

For the complete details of CREATING A CEASE FIRE IN THE BATTLE OF SIBLING RIVALRY, visit CONCERN’s website, www.concern4kids.org, and click on parenting tips or call 610-944-0445.

CONCERN is a private, nonprofit, community-based child welfare agency providing foster care, counseling, community life skills and delinquency services to abused, neglected and delinquent children. It serves over 500 children per day through eight foster care sites, two CONCERN Treatment Unit for Boys campuses and its Life Skills Institute in eastern Pennsylvania and Maryland.