Animal Porcupine from Pixabay

Parenting Tip — The Porcupine & The Bear

Greg Prince
3 min readMar 18, 2019

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Thoughts about helping siblings understand their relationship.

Young siblings will fight as we all know and parents will hurt seeing such a display but what to do we do?

Such passion and play strong wills and no sway.

Anger is high and they won’t give in, only deny.

Try to find the right words but what can I say.

She had it first and sister won’t share. Scream and cry, it all seems absurd. But, to them it’s the end of all ends, anger rising above words.

Parents, we must soothe and find an instant way to cut a new groove. Steer our precious into a new lane and look for a path much more smooth.

Grudges will hold on and linger. Next time to share that sister might remember.

What’s this?

It’s only been a quick minute since the last fit and brawl and now the two sisters have seemed to have forgotten it all.

I hear with delight and see with a grin a new game the girls are playing, a wonderful spin.

“brown bear near grass field” by Jessica Weiller on Unsplash

I explained to my girls,

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Greg Prince

Bringing real feelings along with messages of inspiration and imagination to life. Awakening is the symptom of my infectious condition. Poetry is my condition.