#12554 How to Handle Sibling Rivalry and Parenting Tips - Dr. Ray Guarendi

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“How to handle sibling rivalry” is a common concern for many parents. This episode also addresses the complexities of gentle parenting and its varying definitions, along with strategies for teaching discipline to a young child who seems unaffected by it. Additionally, the discussion touches on bedtime routines and navigating disagreements between parents on discipline methods.

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Questions Covered:

17:36 – How would you respond to gentle parenting and how it has a wide range of definitions? How would you address it?
21:56 – How to handle sibling rivalry
30:51 – We have a 3 year old who isn’t bothered in the long term by discipline. What do you recommend to make her learn?
40:51 – Getting kids to go to bed
44:15 – What should I do if my wife and I disagree on how to discipline?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Scy Kellett, your host.
0:33.8	A little while ago, I don't know, a month or two ago, the Catholic radio station here in San Diego
0:39.2	had their 10th anniversary, and they wanted a big-time speaker, a really big-time speaker.
0:44.7	So they called me up, and they said, hey, could you introduce Dr. Ray Garrendi?
0:49.6	I was like, oh, okay, I see my role here.
0:52.4	I'm the guy that introduces the big time speaker.
0:55.4	And boy, did he bring it. Dr. Ray Garrendi is our guest this hour. He's got a brand new
1:00.8	drama-free discipline book that he's out. The book is called Drama-Free Discipline. Dr.
1:08.0	Ray coaches you to parenting success. Dr. Ray Garrendi, thank you very much for being here with us. I appreciate, Cy, that you got the frisbys and the beach balls going before I got up there. That was good. That was my role. I was that. Yeah, they, what they didn't get, they didn't give me a t-shirt gun. I couldn't shoot t-shirts out into the audience. But, yeah, I was, I was your hype man.
1:29.9	That's what I was. I was your hype man. I got to say this, though, for your listeners, you're a tremendous MC. You're very good. Oh, that's nice for you to say. Thank you very much. Thank you. I see why they picked you. And part that and the fact you probably didn't charge him either.
1:44.5	Well, that's the thing is when you live here in the town with them and they're like, well, you show up. And it's like, you can't really name a number. You just go, all right, I'll show up. But so Raoul, they do give me dates, though. I got a, and now people are going to be like, oh, they give you dates.
2:00.9	What does it?
2:01.1	No, dates like that grow on a tree out in the desert.
2:03.8	That's where it was out in the desert. And I got some of the most delicious dates in the world. So did you have any of those dates while you were out there? They were phenomenal. It was crazy. I never tasted dates. I thought, I didn't know what they were, but they were impressive.
2:18.7	Yeah. Very impressive.
2:20.3	Yep. It's one of the top five reasons to go to the desert and no one can remember the other four.
2:24.9	So tell me about the new book, Drama Free Discipline. What's this all about?
2:32.5	I had a lady walk into my office many years ago.
2:36.1	She was a PhD clinical psychologist.
2:39.9	She had a five-year-old who was eating her lunch.
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