7 Tips to Build a Stronger Sibling Bond

If your children's facing some hard times with each other, obviously you will help them to solve differences carefully. But it's important to learn them that for healthy and happy relationship, siblings must have to spend positive and good time with each other. From a study, found that parents need five to six positive interaction to balance one negative interaction. This simply means that if your children's fight six times a day then you would have to know how to handle this situation with 36 positive interactions. As compared to those siblings who simply ignored each other and had less fighting, their relationship stayed cold and distant long term. Here are some tips to build a strong sibling bond.

1. Notice and support the activities that get your children play together

For a better relationship one thing is important that is their activities in which games they both enjoy together. But it's difficult to identify those activities, especially when there is an age gap or interests. But if you have noticed them, then definitely you will find their mutual activities. Like if she wants to play store and he wants to play astronaut then why not store on the moon. Try to motivate them with their daily activity.

2. Don’t interrupt happy play

You probably know an old phrase you “ Never wake a sleeping baby” just like Never disturb a happily playing child, so when siblings play together don’t try to interrupt them but support them in whatever they need to keep playing.

3. Use oxytocin to get your children bonding

Oxytocin is a happy hormone. So do that activity (like laughing, dancing, singing, being outdoors) increase your oxytocin level by this you are stress-free and you will be able to help your children's in activities.

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4. Start “Special Time” between your children

Assign daily ten minutes to your children by which they can spend some time together.This will definitely help in when they have some age difference or less interested in playing together by which a healthy relationship is maintained.

5. Promote the idea of the sibling team

For instance, give them a teamwork like decorating house for the birthday party or for an event together. By this siblings spend quality time together which makes their bond stronger.

6. When they had spent some bad time then pull them in other activities for changing their mood like helping you in the kitchen or dancing together.

7. Consider bedtime in such a way like an elder sibling read the story to younger one and wish each other goodnight and I love you. This is a lovely opportunity for strong bonding.

Plan some fun family outing by which they spend maximum time with each other by playing activities or if they have some issues in between try to look for a mutual solution and teach them what is wrong and what is bad in a better time when they both are in a good mood.