Siblings (brothers and sisters)
Asperger syndrome is a developmental disability related to autism. It was first identified by Dr Hans Asperger (a paediatrician in Vienna) over 50 years ago. Asperger syndrome and autism are both types of Autism Spectrum Disorder. People with an ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
The F.A.S.T. Diet (Families Always Succeed Together)
The Dean family lost 500 pounds. Now you can lose weight--and keep it off--with their simple plan. Every member of the Dean family was overweight and out of shape. Within twelve months, Tony Dean, his parents, and his five brothers and sisters ... [... more]
Random House |
Wendy Watson
"I grew up on a farm in Vermont with seven younger brothers and sisters. Every morning my brother Peter and I went out to the barn and did our chores. My very favorite job was feeding the baby goats their bottles of milk. After we had our own ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Disability Information and Resource Centre
Your Shoutis place for brothers and sisters of siblings with a disability or chronic illness to have a say and get support. Many countries have special laws to protect people with a disability and to make sure that they can take part in the life ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
The testing process in South Australia
For the past 16 years (well, not quite, but nearly) you have been wanting to drive. Maybe your friends or brothers and sisters already have their licence, and you have felt like this birthday was never going to come. Well the time has come - you ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Depression in children
Everyone knows children can be sad and miserable at times in their lives. Family losses, personal disappointments and difficulties have an effect on them as well as on their parents and adolescent brothers and sisters. Until recently, we have ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
What one sister of a young adult with a disability said:
When your child has a disability it affects everyone in the family including brothers and sisters (siblings). How brothers and sisters react to having a sibling with a disability can depend on the kind of disability, their age, the age of the ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Disability Information and Resource Centre
Your Shout is another place for brothers and sisters of siblings with a disability or chronic illness to have a say and get support. Many countries have special laws to protect people with a disability and to make sure that they can take part in ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Girlfriends and boyfriends
We have many different relationships in our lives. We have relationships with friends at school, teachers, people we work with, our parents, brothers and sisters. This topic is about our more personal relationships with boyfriends and ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Sibling rivalry
Sibling rivalry is a common problem, particularly among children who are the same sex and close together in age. Rivalry between brothers and sisters is lower in families where children feel they are treated equally by their parents. A sibling is ... [... more]
Better Health |
John Lawrence
Most little chicks barely make a peep, but not this little chick! While his brothers and sisters nestle close to their mother hen, this little chick struts off on his own to make some new friends in the farmyard. And he... Dive into the warm ... [... more]
Random House |
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, four orphaned brothers and sisters, suddenly appear in a small town. No one knows who these young wanderers are or where they have come from. Frightened to live with a grandfather they have never met, the children ... [... more]
Random House |
