“You two, stop fighting!”, “Behave yourselves and do not bother each other.”, “What happened again between the two of you?”,… As a parent of two or more children, we might hear ourselves say these phrases several times in a given day. We hope and wish that our children can resolve their conflicts peacefully. For most of us, peaceful conflict resolution between siblings is not what we studied at school or even at university. We don’t quite know how to handle it. The following principals might help us bring up the next generation a little more equipped to deal with this than us:
