![]() ![]() Adele Faber co-wrote the book with Elaine Mazlish, and Adele was very happy to chat. A quick Google search, a few emails to New York, and we were talking to one of the authors herself. Thankfully, it was actually a great read – with some sharp insights on achieving precisely what the title suggests! It was a little like striking gold – and we had to discover more. But we checked the skies for pigs, then flipped open the cover to find out for ourselves … It sounded a little like a Tui billboard, or some dubious cure pedalled by a snake-oil-salesman. Called Siblings Without Rivalry, this New York Times Bestseller promised to reduce conflict and generate goodwill among brothers and sisters … and told parents how to have siblings without rivalry. Siblings will always fight? Well, that’s what we’ve always thought.īut a while ago, we came across a book (a battered library book that’d obviously seen some action). And when you join the parenting fraternity, you discover some new ones: toast will always land peanut-butter-side-down on your plush, spotless carpet … your kids will give you their vomiting-bug … and siblings will always fight with each other. Like, for example, the sky is blue … mammals are hairy … pigs don’t fly. ![]() ![]() Things we can be sure about, things we can always count on. ![]() There are, in this world, certain absolutes. ![]()
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