Joyful Courage - A Conscious Parenting Podcast

Today’s guest is Nicole Schwarz, from Imperfect Families. She’s a mom of 3 girls, a parenting coach and child and family therapist who focuses on helping parents use positive, respectful strategies with their kids. Today we are talking about sibling conflict. The questions we are discussing come straight from the community - join us! What you’ll hear in this episode: •   How to keep sibling conflict to a dull roar with a relationship focus in your parenting •   Balancing the desire to step in with giving space for them to work it out for themselves •   “Say what you see” approach to conflict resolution by describing it •   Role of modeling and coaching for creative solutions •   Deescalating techniques to resolve conflict •   Understanding the role of neurological development on decision making in conflict •   Having empathy for a sense of injustice and encouraging empathy in your kids •   Teaching kids that “people get what they need” and how that might be different and lead to perceived inequity •   Underst