All right, great question from a subscriber on locals.

Every now and then I ask subscribers for particular questions

that are near and dear to their heart,

and so this one is near and dear to my heart.

And I will put the caveat up front

that I do have, in fact, a brother,

but I do not have a relationship with said brother.

And we have not talked in, gosh, I guess it's somewhere between 20 and 25 years.

I could get it in more detail or something like that.

I will also put the caveat in that I have only one child.

And so I have not had a successful sibling relationship of my own,

and I have not managed a sibling relationship in my family just so you know.

Now, I do have good friends who have many multiple children, four, five, six,

and so I have seen a lot of sibling stuff in action, and the parents,

I'm thinking of one family in particular that I know, have three boys who all get along

famously well and a daughter and they are the peaceful parenting people. They peacefully parent.

So I've sort of had conversations with them and observed that family, you know, kind of up close.

So just be aware of the caveats that I will speak with

some theoretical beliefs, but I do not have tangible personal experience of successful sibling

relationships. And so just be aware of that. And I put that sort of caveat

up front. So you can put what I'm saying in context. So before we can talk about how to have good

sibling relationships, one thing I can tell you is how sibling relationships go wrong.

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