Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Your Village podcast, Parenting Beyond Discipline,

the place to learn about all things parenting and get your questions answered. I'm your host,

Aaron Royer. First, I'd like to take a moment today to thank all of my listeners out there for spending your precious time listening to this podcast.

I'm very honored that you take time out of your week and your day and that you find the information that I have to share of value for you and your family.

And also, thanks to all those listeners who have sent emails telling me that they love to share about this podcast.

So thank you all so very much.

Now, last week, I mentioned that I've gotten behind on answering some questions.

So I wanted to put some time aside in this episode to catch up on those.

So I have three great questions this week.

One on sibling fighting and aggression,

another on temper tantrums in a nine-year-old, and the last one from a mom of an infant,

just wanting some guidance on when to start learning more about a lot of these topics I cover

in the podcast so she can be ready. So the first question comes from Mary who has two boys. Dear Erin, I'm loving your

podcast and use your tips daily. They've been so helpful, but I'm having a big problem that I'm really

hoping you can give some guidance on. I was already having a rough day and I got a text from a friend

that she saw my two boys walking home.

They're six and nine and my older one was basically beating up on my younger one,

punching, hitting, not out of anger, but according to her it looked pretty rough. And my younger one,

she said, looked like he was on the verge of tears. This was the second time. This had happened. I was mortified and

embarrassed. My older boy tends to get pretty physical and he's big. The younger one is sweet and

gentle and just tends to get bowled over by the older one. He just doesn't seem to realize his

own strength. What can I do? So Mary, I know it's tough to

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