Sister best friends

If you're a parent, I'm sure you feel the same as me. Our heart desires for our kids to become the best of friends! We want them to go to each other when they need encouragement, want to have fun, need advice, but most importantly....when they need love.

This can be the most daunting task to accomplish with young ones, but I honestly believe if we set them up for successful friendships, they'll become the best of friends!  Little kids are tough though! They love doing the opposite of what they're told. Some more than others. You tell them to play together, they hit each other. You tell them to say sorry, they shout "I'm not sorry!" Why.....I don't know. My husband says it's because they're little terrorists. Despite his oh so wise thought on the matter, they just simply don't want to listen.  

No matter how much they fight it, I'm determined to get them to be best friends. I'm so determined! Hence why we make our girls share a room. My husband and I figure, hey, if they share a room they're stuck together bonding, even if that bonding includes fighting. So much fighting. They're in close quarters so it's likely they'll work through any arguments, right?  We also make our girls "hug it out" and tell each other "I love you" genuinely after a fight. We force them to circle back to their love for each other after being upset. Isn't that what friendship is all about anyways?  Who knows if they'll share a genuine friendship throughout the years, but for now they consider each other “sister best friends". I'll take it!  

I can't be the only one that desires friendship for my kids, so you have to let me know...what are some of the ways you to create friendship amongst your kids?

Let's get creative and work together to raise a generation with more respect and love for each other within families!