The Sibling Survival Guide: Surefire Ways to Solve Conflicts, Reduce Rivalry, and Have More Fun with your Brothers and Sisters

by Dawn Huebner, Kara McHale (Illustrator)

Overview

Having a brother or sister can be tough. It can also be great, but it's hard to see the great parts with so many bad parts getting in the way. Problems like fighting and bossing. Teasing and jealousy. Tattling. Pestering. And more.

But what if you could do something about those problems? Clear them away? Then you'd be able to actually enjoy your siblings!

This indispensable guide from best-selling author Dr. Dawn Huebner speaks directly to children ages 9-12, teaching skills to help them manage feelings and resolve conflicts, strengthening the bonds between brothers and sisters.

Warm, witty, and packed with practical strategies, this interactive book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering siblings to live in peace.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787754928
Publisher:	Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Publication date:	06/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Dawn Huebner, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach specializing in childhood anxiety. She is the author of award-winning books for children including What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Outsmarting Worry and Dr. Dawn's Mini Books About Mighty Fears. Dr. Huebner speaks to groups of educators, mental health professionals, and parents around the world. She is based in Sacramento, California. https://www.dawnhuebnerphd.com/
Dawn Huebner, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Parent Coach specializing in childhood anxiety. She is the author of award-winning books for children including What to Do When You Worry Too Much, Outsmarting Worry and Dr. Dawn's Mini Books About Mighty Fears. Dr. Huebner speaks to groups of educators, mental health professionals, and parents around the world. She is based in Sacramento, California. https://www.dawnhuebnerphd.com/

Table of Contents

A Note To Parents and Caregivers 7

Ch 1 Brothers and Sisters Can Be Tough 13

Ch 2 The Secret To Seeing Differently 21

Ch 3 Reward the Good Stuff 37

Ch 4 Don't Take The Bait! 49

Ch 5 Another Way To Ignore - With A Twist 51

Ch 6 Dogs Don't Do Dishes 65

Ch 7 Dealing With Feelings 75

Ch 8 Solving Problems Like People 91

Ch 9 Fair and Equal 103

Ch 10 It's Between You and Your Siblings 113

Ch 11 The Good News About Brothers and Sisters 121

Editorial Reviews

Sibling conflict is one of the most challenging parts of parenting. The Sibling Survival Guide helps parents not only survive these battles but use them to help their kids thrive. Huebner provides strategies to reduce conflict and build skills, giving children a greater capacity to navigate all relationships well.

Tina Payne Bryson

Packed with practical guidance pitched just right for school-age children, Dr. Huebner's Sibling Survival Guide fills a critical need in the literature. The book avoids feeling preachy while inviting children into more effective ways of living with irksome siblings. Those who know Huebner's other work will immediately recognize her practical wisdom, warmth and humor. Those who don't are in for a treat. A must-have for anyone who lives or works with siblings who squabble.

Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Once again, Dawn Huebner provides invaluable and brilliant advice for children, parents, and therapists. This book on sibling dynamics fills a major void and is a must-have for any child with a sibling. It will enjoy a spot in my office alongside the rest of Dr. Huebner's fantastic books.

Kari Groff MD

One of the advantages I found as a classroom teacher working with children and young people is that the 'difficult stuff' like astronomy, physics, chemistry, aspects of PSHE or history gets pre-simplified by an expert who can make such subjects approachable, engaging and appropriately humorous. Dawn Huebner's Sibling Survival Guide is one such book and set to be an invaluable resource.
Her strategies and suggestions are pragmatic and workable. Her tone's accessible to her target audience of ten- to twelve-year-olds without ever being patronising - often really tricky when writing for a 'tween' or teen audience. Arguably a mature nine-year-old or anyone in their early to mid-teens, with siblings, can gain hugely from this book. Similarly an only child could just as easily learn much about compromise, sharing, negotiation and cooperation from Dawn's expertise.
I like that she alludes to Learning Theory: giving interested readers the opportunity to satisfy themselves Huebner knows what she's talking about in a world where children and young people (quite rightly) are encouraged to fact check and question much of what they're presented as 'expert opinion'.
Throughout the book Dawn gives her parent and guardian readers useful tips to steer them away from being the referee of their children's bickering, disputes and arguments.
This is all together a thoroughly useful volume: combining positive thinking with logical, workable strategies to reward constructive behaviour and so effect the change one would like to see.
One of the other advantages of reading books aimed at children which need to be read beforehand by the adults giving them out is that you can gain an awful lot of helpful advice about your own thinking: encouraging quiet reflection on how you manages your own sibling relationships. Basically when you cannot change your sibling's behaviour: change your own. Then theirs changes. It's sound thinking and Dawn Huebner's written a handy book of wise words ...well worth the investment

Jonathan Charlesworth

This warm and witty book about how siblings can deal with each other in the best possible ways is a real winner...there are lots of good, humorous line drawings of all the things being explained. This book is a practical and useful way of dealing with siblings in all their various life situations and a good way of solving the perennial problem of kids not getting on.

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