Do you have young children close enough in age that sibling bickering calls upon you to referee more often than you’d like? Then Parent Hacks may have a good creative solution you’d be interested in.
In Choice Day Helps Reduce Bickering Between Competitive Siblings, Parent Hacks offers the idea of “Choice Day,” which pre-empts the competitive “who gets the front seat” and “who gets to pick the t.v. program” arguments in which siblings sometimes find themselves. Says Parent Hacks,
As strange as this sounds, this has served two purposes: (1) to get rid of many of the conflicts that I was dealing with every day, and (2) to help teach my 5 year old to value other people and their choices.
Doesn’t sound strange to me…sounds creative and effective.
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What a great idea. I recently heard the one where if your kids are fighting over a piece of cake or something similar you can have one cut and the other choose which side they get. I’ll be adding this one to my toolbox as well!