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Dates:Sat from 2/21/15 - 3/28/15
Hours:9:30 am - 11:30 am
Ages:Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:Indoor
Cost:$$ see below
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A workshop for parents: No need to go it alone when coping with sibling rivalry. Join other parents with the same frustrations. Learn how to reduce conflict and generate goodwill among all your children.

'That's mine!'...

'No, mine!'
'He punched me!'...

'I never touched him!'
'You love her more than me!'

The goal of the Siblings Without Rivalry group workshop, based on Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s award winning book, is to help you help your children learn how to live together.

Each session sensitizes parents to what it is that increases hostility between children and the attitude and language that decrease hostility.

During each session, parents will learn and practice specific skills that help reduce friction and make harmony possible.

Join Positive Parenting Boston this February for the Siblings Without Rivalry group workshop series!

What Will Be Covered in Each Session?

1.Helping Siblings Deal with Their Feelings About Each Other - What happens to brothers and sisters when their hostile feelings about each other are ignored or denied?

Four specific methods for helping children express their negative feelings to each other without doing damage.

2.

Keeping Children Separate and Unequal - How siblings react when they are compared to each other - unfavorably or even favorably.

Effective alternatives to comparisons.

How siblings feel about always being treated equally.

Ways to treat children unequally and still be fair.

3.Siblings in Roles - Why brothers and sisters 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 most whole self.

4.

When the Kids Fight - What can you do when fighting breaks out between the 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.

5.

Problem Solving - A method for helping children deal with the problems they can't work out for themselves.

A simple approach that enables adults to sit down with the young combatants so that they can move toward resolving their conflicts.

6.

A Final Review - 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.

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$130 per person for early registration (fully paid by Jan. 31) or if you bring a friend$190 after Jan. 31

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positiveparentingboston.weebly.com

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41 Garrison Road, Brookline, MA, 02445 map
Phone: 917-846-2573

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