Interactive
My Sibling Has Something Extra
Your brother or sister needs extra help and sometimes that changes everything.
You love them. You also feel other things about them. Both are true at the same time.
For the Children ages 5 to 12 who have a sibling with a disability, chronic illness, developmental difference, or condition that requires extra support — and who are living in the particular emotional complexity of loving someone whose needs sometimes consume the family's attention. Also for caregivers who want to hold space for the sibling experience without guilt.
The Name It First Experience
Your sibling has something that needs extra. Extra appointments. Extra attention. Extra patience. Extra from everyone, including you. In My Sibling Has Something Extra, you navigate the moments that come with being the sibling who doesn't need the extra — what you feel when you're the one who has to wait, what you do when you're tired of it, what you do when you feel something about your sibling that you think you're not supposed to feel. Each path leads somewhere different. This is a story for children who love their sibling and are also sometimes struggling with what that love costs them. The output is Your Sibling Story — the truth of what it's like and what you're figuring out about how to carry it.
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Sample questions
- What do you think the kid is feeling when they have to wait because their sibling needs extra attention right now?
- What would YOU do if you felt something about your sibling that you thought you were not supposed to feel?
- Is it possible to love someone and also sometimes find it hard to be around what they need? What do you think?
Research basis
Stoneman and Brody sibling adjustment research in families with disability / McHale and Gamble sibling experience in special needs families / CASEL social awareness competencies.
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