In our home, we celebrate Brothers’ Day once a year. This special day is a focus for a long time beforehand as we choose a cake together, plan a fun outing, and generally celebrate how special brothers are. This idea was from Laura Markham’s book Peaceful Parents Happy Siblings , and I’m so glad we took it on as a family ritual. This ritual is just one of the very intentional ways we've helped our boys build the best relationship they can. When things are going well, my boys connect well and love one another deeply. As young human beings who carry some hurts, they also can have bumps along the road in their relationship. There has been plenty of physical fighting, verbal stoushing, sibling rivalry and big feelings between them. Over the past two years things have steadily improved thanks to Parenting by Connection tools and strategies. Here are five of the key bond-building ideas that have made a difference to our family, and that I hope might help your kids get along well t