Website Launch and Free Resource Guides: Siblings Beyond Rivalry
"It's just sibling rivalry."
"All siblings fight."
"They'll grow out of it."
"Just ignore them."
A lot of conventional wisdom about raising siblings misses the point. Many parents want real help. They want their children to get along, but they often lack practical strategies for dealing with sibling rivalry and conflict.
At SAARA, we created Siblings Beyond Rivalry to give parents of young children (ages 0-7) practical guidance to prevent and stop sibling rivalry, conflict, and aggression. The new website includes videos of real parents describing the challenges of raising siblings, along with two free resource guides. These resources contain curated, research-based tips and tools to teach parents and their children communication and emotion regulation skills. Above all, Siblings Beyond Rivalry’s goal is to help parents support strong, lifelong sibling relationships.
Helping Siblings Get Along: A Guide to Preventing Childhood Conflict and Aggression includes:
- Simple strategies to reduce rivalry
- Tips to support key social and emotional skills
- How to teach conflict management skills to children
- Ideas to help siblings get along
Managing Sibling Rivalry, Conflict, and Aggression in Childhood includes:
- Examples of rivalry and conflict that have gone too far
- Effective techniques to help children resolve their conflicts
- How to respond to children’s complaints of mistreatment
- Tips to reduce sibling fighting
Siblings Beyond Rivalry is funded by a grant from the Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood to SAARA's Director, Corinna Jenkins Tucker, and Assistant Director, Tanya Rouleau Whitworth. We are thankful to the Caplan Foundation, the parents who shared their time and experiences with us, and our team who helped us design, translate, and develop the website.
The entire Siblings Beyond Rivalry website and both resource guides are free and available in English and Spanish at
