Living With Children: How to Settle Kids’ Dispute

Living With Children: How to Settle Kids’ Dispute
The secret to helping children work out problems among themselves is to transfer its emotional burden from parent to child, writes John Rosemond. Dreamstime/TNS
Tribune News Service
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By John Rosemond From Tribune News Service

Q: Our sons are 6 and 4. When their same-age cousins come over, they all go down into our basement to play. Invariably, within 30 minutes, my youngest comes upstairs crying because his older brother is causing the cousins to gang up against him. I end up going down into the basement every half hour to settle these disputes. Is there a way to solve the problem once and for all?