485: Eliminate Kid's Bickering, Arguing, and Whining
Now That We're A Family
Elisha and Katie Voetberg
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Corolling children. Boy, this is something that I think any parent can relate to the frustration that comes with that. Any person that's been a child and had siblings has partaken in quarreling, right, some form of arguing. And today it's funny, I got on the, like our question, I guess, submission section and three of the first five questions that I read. So there are three |
| 0:24.3 | of the five most recent ones. We're all around kind of, you know, tending to squabbles in the home. |
| 0:31.2 | And, you know, how do we discipline and I guess, you know, rectify those disagreements that are so common. |
| 0:39.5 | And I mean, it seems inevitable, you know, at times, right? |
| 0:43.4 | I think the frequency is not inevitable, right? |
| 0:46.4 | We can definitely reduce how often that happens in our home. |
| 0:48.9 | And we can control how we interact with those situations. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm going to read this one of them. Okay. So, again, a few of our listeners wrote in about how we interact with those situations. I'm going to read this one of them. Okay. So again, a few |
| 0:55.7 | of our listeners wrote in about how to deal with siblings arguing and quarreling. This listener says, |
| 1:02.8 | I'm reading it from kind of a long ways away. Yeah, I can't see a word from here. I'm a mom of four. |
| 1:08.4 | It looks like there's twins, 8, 8, 5, and 1 from Switzerland. I often get |
| 1:13.8 | overwhelmed when my, man, I'm going to move my mic and get a little closer here. When my kids fight |
| 1:18.5 | or all of them want something at the same time, how do you manage when multiple children |
| 1:23.4 | want something at the same time? How do you manage sibling fights with a fruitful outcome? |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, with fruitful outcome. |
| 1:31.4 | Also, I have a hard time with prioritizing |
| 1:35.4 | and then often don't know how to handle a situation well. |
| 1:39.0 | And then I start to yell out of overwhelm. |
| 1:41.5 | How do you stay calm and manage those situations? Thanks a lot. |
| 1:46.8 | So I think it's Sabine who's the name? Boy, I can relate with that. Certainly can relate with |
| 1:52.6 | that. I'm curious to hear your thoughts, Katie, because it is, those are some intense moments. |
| 1:57.7 | And I feel like it really can reveal a lot in ourselves and where we're at |
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