Welcome back everyone—if you’re new to the PowerFul Parenting Podcast you can think of this show as the intersection of real food, peaceful parenting, alternative education, and healthy lifestyle habits for kids.This show is driven by listener questions. If you have a question that you want answered on the show, please head over to http://rebootyourkids.com/ask and record your question. If you can’t figure out how to get the online recorder to work, just submit your question on the site by clicking through to the contact page at rebootyourkids.com and we’ll record it for you.I also want to remind you that we have a Reboot Your Kids Facebook group. We just broke 500 members in this group and we’re adding a handful of new people each day. It’s becoming a very powerful resource for discussing how to implement authentic parenting strategies. If you’re interested in that, come check it out. Just go to Facebook and search for Reboot Your Kids. You’ll see our Facebook Page and our Facebook Group. Like the page and then request to join the group. I can’t wait to see you there :)Today’s question comes from Randi and my lovely wife wasn’t here to record it so I’m just going to read the email she sent and then get right to it.I have a question about empathy and teaching my 3 year old to be gentle with her (almost) 18 month old sister. I feel like I stay pretty calm in most situations, but the thing that really gets me frustrated is when my oldest is rough with my youngest. I am lost in this situation. I do the best I can, stay calm, comfort the one who's hurt first, talk through what happened without blaming/shaming, and ask her if there's anything she can do to help her sister feel better. I feel like I'm missing something though. I am at a loss. I feel like she doesn't care when her sister is hurting or upset. She'll be happily playing and calm, and then she'll just throw something at her or hit her suddenly. Or other times, she's just playing too rough and doesn't seem bothered at all that her sister is crying and trying to get away from her. I don't know what to do. I do try to stay calm, but when it happens over and over, I do lose my temper occasionally. I feel like I'm failing sometimes because we've been battling this for quite some time. I'm having a hard time figuring out what she needs from me.Support the ShowThe Powerful Parenting Podcast is a crowd-funded show. That means it is driven by listener contributions. If you find value in this show and have the means to contribute financially, we ask that you pledge a small per-episode contribution. These contributions pay for hosting, equipment, software, editing, and production time. You can pledge as little as $1 per episode---every contribution helps.[intense_button color="warning" size="large" link="/contribute/" target="_blank" padding_top="15" padding_bottom="15" padding_left="25" padding_right="25"]CONTRIBUTE [/intense_button] [intense_spacer height="30"]