"Mom, she hit me!" "But she started it!" The sound of squabbling siblings is enough to make your hair stand on end. How can two members of the same family love each other, yet treat each other so horribly? The parents of Parent Soup decided it was time to put their heads together and figure out how to smooth sibling relationships, so they instituted the Sibling Rivalry Community Challenge. During the challenge, parents shared their tips for easing sibling conflict. Here are some of their tried and true solutions.

Dispelling Tension
"I have two children who are 19 months apart. When they are fighting, the most horrible thing I can do to my kids is make them share a chair and look at each other in a mirror. With all the goofy faces they make in the mirror the disagreement is soon forgotten and they are laughing like best friends. And if they feel the need to continue the fight after a few minutes in the no-no chair, I assign them some physical labor. Then, the excess energy they are directing toward each other is soon put to better use hauling rocks."
~ iVillager NINInRIE