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Siblings Without Rivalry
- How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
When parenting authorities Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish sat down to write the national best seller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, they found they could not contain their chapter on sibling rivalry. No matter how much they tried to pare down their advice, they found the subject inexhaustible - and parents agreed!
Siblings Without Rivalry guides the way to family peace and tranquility with humor and compassion for both parents and children. Action oriented and easy to understand, it's packed with sensitive yet sensible ways to turn quarreling siblings and frustrated parents into an open, communicative family.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2019-01-18
some good content and valid points
the various voices the narrator uses is not necessary and a little annoying. much longer than it needs to be,could be much more concise. some good points and content.
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- Esin
- 2021-01-05
great knowledge
i wish it wasnt written as a memoirs of a taught class, but the information given here was pretty good. my children are still young 4.5 and 15 months old. they dont fight yet. i will be ready once they do though! also, i started the mirroring techniques on my 4.5 year old already and he seems happier. i went from 'mean mommy' to 'i love you mommy'. we still do the same activities, i just force him less to enjoy it. all it took was for me to repeat what he feels, and we both found out he is scared to try new things but enjoys it once he gets into it. this technique definitely helps a kid feel understood by his/her parent.
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- Jay
- 2018-05-14
Excellent ideas, if...
Excellent ideas, if you put aside the melodramatic narrator. Would consider buying more of these authors’ books.
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- Ana Claudia Riekstin
- 2023-05-21
To understand my kids, my siblings, my parents
Just loved it from the beginning to the end. I think everyone in the society should read/listen to this book. What a great book. The examples make it easy to put yourself in the situation.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-01-21
Helpful!
Stories from sessions with parents were very helpful! Very relatable! Recommend for anyone with a sibling or multiple children.
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- Marina Lopez
- 2022-12-16
Very good tips but Overwhealming
Great to deal with the individuality of each of our childrens, prevent rivality and life traumas. However, I would have love to know also how to get them to play together or collaborate more with each other.
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- Nima T
- 2022-03-23
Good
Well written. Helpful.. Thought provoking. Helped with. Our kids and selves. Lol. Yup! Ndhidb
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- Cindy
- 2021-02-22
Une lecture très révélatrice! 🌟
Une lecture délectable que tous les parents de fratries devraient lire. J'ai d'abord tenu à le lire pour remplir mon coffre à outils de maman, mais force est d'admettre que ce livre m'a aidé à comprendre beaucoup de choses sur ma relation avec mon frère et ma soeur. Faites-vous un cadeau : LISEZ CE LIVRE. Que vous soyez parent ou non!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-26
Great for having a second child
The book prepared me for the birth of my second child. It helped me understand the feelings of my first, and helped me with his unacceptable behaviours. Very recommended
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-02-24
Great read
Good investment towards being a better parent. This is the third book I have listened two by these two authors and each of them have held their own key values.
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- D. Winn
- 2017-11-12
Doesn't Get to the Heart
My review is written from a Christian perspective. If you're secular, disregard me. But, this book has many Biblical references and is popular in many Christian communities, so I don't think my opinions are irrelevant. (There are 2 authors but I'll be referring to them mostly in the singular as they do in their text). This book definitely offers many great situational solutions; ways to defuse conflict and listen in ways that make kids feel validated, mostly. However, an underlying theme is that you shouldn't discourage a child from expressing extremely negative things about others, and that some children just aren't meant to like each other. No unreasonable or viscous thought is off limits; we're told to never correct or invalidate any of these statements and feelings. Suzy wants to burn Sally alive and watch birds pick at her crisped carcass because she got a better grade on a test? We're not supposed to challenge that! The proof is in the pudding though... so has it led to their kids being shining examples of sibling harmony? No, she (they) are very honest in admitting that their kids are as cruel and violent as anyone else's (which is fair enough!). At one point, one of the authors recounts an incident where her older son heated up a spoon on the hot coil of a stove, and then burnt his younger sibling on the neck with it. That's terrifying and cruel, NOT just normal kid stuff, and it was a critical moment when the authors lost some credibility as 2nd generation parenting experts for me. If things in their homes aren't exceptionally better than Joe-shmoe, whyyyy am I paying for their advice? Where is the fruit of their wise guidance? The authors don't claim to have a solution to correcting the HEART of the issues between siblings... and that's where Siblings Without Rivalry fails. They just provide really great tips for managing one crisis situation after another. The book left me feeling hopeless, as the main takeaway is that we as parents are powerless to address the REAL issues of our kids' sinful hearts (pride, anger, selfishness, jealousy, etc), and instead should focus on cultivating skills to merely survive until the kids either learn to like each other, or are grown and don't have to live together any more. Ultimately, I felt this book actually encouraged very self-centered thinking in our kids through the constant validation (to be clear, they don't say to AGREE with your kids, but to mostly offer generic, non-corrective acknowledgement of what they've said, such as " wow, yeah, I'm hearing that you really want to burn Sally alive!". To an angry person, seemingly-neutral acknowledgement like that is as good as approval). A home (or world) full of self-centered people isn't a very enjoyable place to live, and I'm not merely aiming for "surviving until they're off to college"... so this was a disappointing read.
Some valuable solutions here for conflict management, but gets us no closer to cracking into the heart of our kids' conflicts or teaching them to be gracious and Christlike with one another.
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- Tracy
- 2015-05-20
Amazing! Fast results, cannot believe it.
What made the experience of listening to Siblings Without Rivalry the most enjoyable?
It was easy to follow and gave great examples. Looking at the parents early lives helped. I listen while I drive and one of the times my boys were in the vehicle with me and they did not want me to turn it off. The enjoyed it also!
What other book might you compare Siblings Without Rivalry to and why?
Nothing I have ever read has been this good, on dealing with siblings.
Which scene was your favorite?
It had many good parts and all worked together for the good of my boys.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
How they compare the new sibling scenario to inviting another husband or wife into the situation. That really made a difference for me. If my husband got another wife how would I feel, how would I like sharing my things with her, how would I deal with sharing his attention. Nicely done! I cannot explain it so that all can understand but if you have issues between siblings THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!
Any additional comments?
It has made my home a nicer place to be. We talk it out and apply what I learned from the book and it is unbelievable. I am so happy. I am not even all the way through but it is that good, already!
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- Someone
- 2018-03-29
Discouraging
I’ll keep listening at some point, but I had to stop at the end of chapter 2. I wish I could see what the additional chapters cover. I am just preparing for my second child, so listening to two chapters of the author talking about how much kids hate and want to physically harm their siblings is very depressing. I was hoping for a book that would help me positively prepare my child for a sibling, but this book (so far) just seems to aim at teaching children to verbalize their hatred rather than only physically harm others. I may be a little naive, but having siblings myself I refuse to believe that all children turn into murderous sociopaths once they have siblings.
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- Annie
- 2018-01-24
Very helpful
What was one of the most memorable moments of Siblings Without Rivalry?
The fact that the adults parents, while trying to help their children, got closure from their own hurts and emotional baggage, that developed years ago, from their experience with sibling rivalry.
What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?
Let the hurting child express their negative feelings to you. Of course you don't agree, but it will help your child, because accepting and validating, helps those negative feelings go away.
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This book taught me to forget the classic one liners, such as, 'I love you both the same" as they are NOT helpful!
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- Matt
- 2020-08-04
Very Helpful Different Perspective
I liked it a lot. Great techniques to use. Only complaint is biblical scripture citations. Irrelevant to non-believers.
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- Amy
- 2015-05-27
Quick - Listen to it before school gets out!
Would you consider the audio edition of Siblings Without Rivalry to be better than the print version?
I was able to get through it more quickly by listening to it.
Have you listened to any of Kathe Mazur’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
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I'm so happy my book club decided to read Siblings without Rivalry before school gets out. This title has been languishing on my to read list for awhile. I thought I would get some tips on how to stop the bickering, but the book is more than that. It isn't just for parents. I was constantly reflecting on my own upbringing. I had a real "moment" with this book. I clearly see why I have the relationship that I do with my brother. Moving forward I'm so motivated to change my approach to my kids.
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- Yuhua Zhou
- 2018-01-21
Great book! Great stories and problem solving skill
Very useful skills. It’s a parents hand book. Audiobook is even better for busy parents who barely have time to read. I finished the book while driving, walking, doing exercises!
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- J. Fittkau
- 2016-11-07
Really helpful
This book made me see sibling relationship in a new light. My children's as well as my own.
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- Momof4
- 2016-09-05
I Listened to it TWICE!
What did you love best about Siblings Without Rivalry?
It is very practical and very easy to follow. 90% of the audiobooks I purchase, I don't finish them completely. I actually listened to this one twice!
What was one of the most memorable moments of Siblings Without Rivalry?
The concept that stands out the most is that we should not label our kids, and we should not talk about one child with another child in the family, whether it is positive or negative.
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The book is written as if the listener is part of the siblings without rivalry parenting class. It flows well and is very helpful. I think it has definitely helped me interact with my four kids.
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- Sean Maurais
- 2023-04-04
Frustrating and dated
Bottom line: The examples in the book are obvious, generic and dated. Constant references to "daddy's little girl", "he's the creative one", or "this one's the oldest, this one's the middle, and he's the baby" leave parents with the impression that no matter what you do or say to or about your kids, you will scar them irreparably. Practical techniques were too few and long term strategies were not apparent for how to redirect or counsel children in conflict. Find a more modern book that factors in the impacts of technology and social media.
I did some quick research on this book as Audible's interface obfuscates original publishing dates by only displaying the release date on Audible. I learned the original book was published in 1972 and re-released seemingly at least once a decade since then. This alone makes it challenging to apply this book in 2023. Having read titles about peaceful parenting, empathic parenting and positive discipline, this book is not worth the time. The language and settings used in the group parenting sessions make it hard to relate to the parents in this book.
One of the more frustrating things about this book is that the transcripts of the group parenting sessions sounded fictitious, as if they were the idealized depictions of how those sessions should go to result in group think about a particular topic. Chapter 7, on the roles that children are put into and adopt, strongly reinforced this impression. At one point, a man in the group raises his hand to "play devils advocate" suggesting that roles such as "the smart one" can be beneficial resulting in that child studying more. The group quickly chastised this perspective on the grounds that it leaves the other siblings left behind. The merits of labeling noteworthy proficiency in math, art, dance, etc. are not expanded upon in this book and the reader is left with the impression that there is only one conclusion, roles are bad and everything you do as a parent creates and reinforces these roles.
On a positive note, this Chapter included a scenario in which an older brother is discouraged from continuing to play piano because his little sister performed a piece better than the brother, presumably without practice. The group of parents in the book role plays this scenario with the "parent" telling the "older brother" that it doesn't matter how well the sister performed the piece, only that playing piano makes the brother happy and that he should not quit just because the sister "did better" at this one piece. This was a nice example of how to navigate that kind of situation although very idealistic and, in my opinion, requires more abstract thought than I would expect from a 10 year old.
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- Julie
- 2021-02-07
Fantastic book!!!
I absolutely loved that book. Although I had initially bought it to tackle my fears as I was expecting our second child, I actually learned so much about my own sibling relationships, and it opened my eyes on so many things. Thank you, Adele & Elaine!!
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