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I'm John Fuller along with Danny Huerta and today we're talking about sibling rivalry.

Yeah, sibling rivalry is something that every home has to deal with when you have more than one child.

It's just a reality. There's differences of

attention, difference of personality, desire for attention boredom. This is not a

parenting failure when this occurs. No, definitely not. Can and Abel, we're definitely in that camp.

And from then on, you look at David, even Jesus in his family.

Yes.

There's sibling rivalry that took place there.

We're not immune to that. We're certainly at times allergic

as parents to the idea of something rivalry especially when we're driving and

all of a sudden you start hearing in the back. Oh yeah. You go, hey guys, what are you guys really wanting?

I'm going to pull this car over. Yeah, we're going to pull this over.

Oh, I'm sorry, I interrupted you. You were saying actually a good script.

What are you wanting?

Yeah, what is it that you want? What are you wanting right now?

And generally, the kids don't even know. They're just upset.

It's just one of those emotion spillovers that's happening in the middle of something else that you're

trying to do or trying to go somewhere. Usually it's boredom, really, or a lack of attention

or there's something that they haven't fixed a few days ago that is

still spilling into today and it will always be there as parents we have to stop

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