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How Do I Handle Sibling Competition?

It's hard for kids to share their parents. Siblings can feel like they're competing for the ultimate resource: your love and attention.

Dr. Beckyhost
May 6, 202227mWatch on YouTube ↗

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EPISODE INFO

Released
May 6, 2022
Duration
27m
Channel
Good Inside with Dr. Becky
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

It's hard for kids to share their parents. Siblings can feel like they're competing for the ultimate resource: your love and attention. While we can't get rid of those competitive feelings, we can help our kids learn to recognize and regulate them (and this of course is what leads to improved behavior!). In this week's episode, Dr. Becky offers several strategies to parents navigating sibling rivalry—from validating our kid's tricky feelings about siblinghood to encouraging cooperation to introducing mantras through play. Join Good Inside Membership: http://www.goodinside.com Follow Dr. Becky on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside Sign up for our weekly email, Good Insider: https://www.goodinside.com/newsletter Want More? Check these out: It's Okay Not to Share - https://youtu.be/6tQFOa2xHuw Deep Dive: Myriam Sandler of MOTHERCOULD on Frustration Tolerance and Sibling Dynamics - https://youtu.be/NStrUu_O0zo Why Won't My Kids Listen To Anything I Say? - https://youtu.be/Rb7FSL1y3Oo Deeply Feeling Kids Need a Different Approach - https://youtu.be/WQNM5EyDtKE Motherhood Doesn’t Have to Be Martyrdom - https://youtu.be/ywJMtRHzqFY

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  • Dr. Becky

    host

    Clinical psychologist and parenting expert; host of the Good Inside podcast.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Good Inside with Dr. Becky, featuring Dr. Becky, How Do I Handle Sibling Competition? explores Reduce sibling rivalry by building security, teamwork, and emotion skills Sibling competition is driven by kids’ fear that parental attention is scarce, so the goal isn’t to eliminate rivalry but to build security so siblings feel less like threats.

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