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Notes on Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings by Laura Markham

12/19/2022

I recently finished reading Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life by Laura Markham, and I thought it was great. It built on Siblings Without Rivalry and incorporated many ideas from RIE (such as from No Bad Kids). The biggest new ideas I learned from this book were about coaching instead of controlling (I liked many of the sample scenarios and scripts in the book), the importance of daily roughhousing and 1:1 special time, self-regulated turn-taking, and family property rules.

My main notes and takeaways are below.

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Notes on UnSelfie by Michele Borba

10/16/2022

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I attended a parenting talk a while ago, and the speaker recommended the book UnSelfie: Why Empathetic Kids Succeed in Our All-About-Me World by Michele Borba. I recently finished reading it and thought it was decent. The book seemed to have a mnemonic/acronym for every situation, which I thought was clever but also tiring by the end. I did appreciate reading about all the different games and example activities that can help develop empathy in kids and the research behind why empathy helps kids succeed.

Below are my main notes and takeaways from the book.

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Notes on Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

8/29/2022

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I finally finished reading Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a much shorter book than How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, but I still learned a lot from it and appreciated the quick tactical advice and specific scripts/language included. I now understand why this is the classic book about sibling relationships.

See my main notes/takeaways below.

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