Siblings: You're Stuck with Each Other, So Stick Together

by James J. Crist and Elizabeth Verdick

Book Overview

Humorous yet practical advice for building positive sibling relationships.

Turn sibling rivalry into positive sibling relationships with this fun, humorous pocket guide for kids. Siblings can make for great friends, and it's nice to have someone who'll love you no matter what. But kids know that sibling relationships can be hard when problems of fairness, jealousy, conflict, tattling, privacy, and other things come up--and they usually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575423367
• ISBN13: 9781575423364
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

A practical and fun resource for kids, parents and mental health and teaching professionals

"Siblings, You're Stuck with Each Other, So Stick Together" is a great mental health handbook to the thorny problem field of sibling relationships, the search for peace and harmony. This creative, colorful, humor-laden book contains tons of ideas and suggestions for ways to enrich and improve anyone's given sibling relationships. Some specific topic areas are: How Birth Order Affects Your Relationship, Top 10 Sticky Situations and Survival Secrets, 5 Ways to Forge a Fabulous Friendship, a Note for Parents and Caregivers, and many more. "Siblings..." is particularly helpful in that it focuses on strengthening and developing positive sibling relationships rather than just subjecting the rivalry or negative aspects of the relationship to analysis and scrutiny. Special sibling problem areas that are dealt with also include half siblings, step siblings, adopted siblings and siblings with special needs. In addition, the Note to Parents and Caregivers includes advice on When Professional Help is Needed, such as "If one child bullies the others, fighting happens often and ruins family plans, or if a child's self esteem suffers.. (p. 115)" "Siblings, You're Stuck With Each Other.." is a practical and fun resource for kids, parents and mental health and teaching professionals.

Getting along together

Good information. A bit too much to assimilate for younger kids. Great for blended families. Gives a good foundation for sibling unity.