Deeply feeling kids and sibling dynamics. I'm asked about these two things all the time.

What do I do? My older kid is a deeply feeling kid. They feel things intensely. They also have intense reactions.

And I can deal with a lot of that, but when it comes out at one of their siblings,

when they're hurtful with their words, when they're getting

in arguments all the time, when I notice my younger kids' confidence, taking a hit, then I feel

really stuck.

This week I'm talking to a couple about deeply feeling kids, birth order, sibling dynamics all at once.

Hi, welcome.

Hello, hi.

Hello. Let's jump in just one of Hi, hello.

Hello.

Let's jump in just one of you can start

tell me a little bit what's on your mind.

Kind of, we often have like a top issue that feels burning

and then if you want, you could also add also add on hey I'd really like to get

x y or z by the end of our conversations so I know how to give you something helpful.

So we've got three children two boys and a girl and our eldest who has just turned eight.

He's like super kind and thoughtful, very diplomatic, never wants to kind of rock the boat, very kind of of socially cautious, loves nature, loves science,

not into sport or anything like that.

I'd say kind of gross motor skills have always been a bit more challenging.

Yeah, he's more into sort of like the quieter reading and those sorts of activities and then our middle

son, so his younger brother is the opposite he's like really outgoing and

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