Welcome to Wire Talk with Karen Stubbs, a podcast designed to encourage and to quit moms by answering your questions about motherhood, hopefully helping you maintain your faithfulness to God, while experiencing a peaceful life on your journey.

Here's your host, Sunny Williams.

Hey everyone, this is Sunny and thank you so much for joining us again today for Wire Talk. I am sitting here with the lovely Karen Stubbs. Good morning,

hey good morning. How are you? I'm good. Yeah last week was a big week. I know I I'm telling you, August is really peck full of great topics.

It really is. And today is no different. This is going to be an interesting day for me because I don't have a lot to

identify with on this one for me personally but I do for my children right so

once you tell us what we're talking about today our topic today is what can I do to prevent sibling rivalry

all right even yeah let's just jump right on to prevent sibling rivalry. All right, then.

Yeah.

Let's just jump right on in.

And you can't relate because you're the only child, right?

Yes.

And I will tell you that this has been a parenting tension between John and I because John does have an older brother.

Right. I don't have siblings so I don't have the relationship to base anything off of and so I don't know how to parent siblings right because I have

none of that to identify with exactly so question number one. My children will not stop fighting that I can identify with.

How do I teach them the importance of being friends and a fan of each other not rivals?

To be honest, having them grow up and not be close

as one of my biggest fears. That's a fair of mine too I think. Yeah okay well

let's jump in. The first thing I think that we all have to realize is, I'm going to pull the

God card here, fear is not from God. Preach, all right? Second thing is, you cannot make your

children be close. I mean are you sure because I just

feel like there has to be a magic button I can push somewhere there's no easy

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