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When our six children were smaller peaceful is not a word I would have used to describe

our house. Those kids could squabble over the smallest things and my wife and I were

referees it seemed 24-7.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta.

He directs our parenting and youth team here at Focus on the Family and Danny.

Ours is not the only family where siblings get under each other's skin and really make

conflict inevitable this seems to be a part of life right it is. Thank you. I feel better. In fact, uh,

researchers have found that it's one sibling conflict every 10 minutes on the

average family. I believe it. And, uh, yeah, there are different personalities at play, they're different

ages, different opinions, and it presents great opportunities for us as parents to be able to

practice the fruits of the spirit first of all but

then second is to teach our kids how to navigate differences differences of

opinion and man what a what a great opportunity right that we get as parents to help our kids learn how to handle

conflict and it begins in the home I appreciate that let's go ahead and hear now as

focus president Jim Daly and Kim Tropy talked with Courtney DeFeo, who shared some fun ways to help your kids stop

bickering and complaining and instead to be joyful.

Talk about the Joy Field Journal. Yeah, I think it was an exercise that my girls and I were talking and sometimes even with boys, you can only go so far with the discussion.

You know, so we were talking about the difference between joy and

happiness and then there really is a difference. You can be happy with just

fleeting things, you know, a sunrise can make you happy or a friend at school can

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