Parents need to know that a younger brother ("the Pain") and older sister ("the Great One") call each other by nicknames and bicker constantly. There are some mildly tense moments: The Pain ends up in the emergency room with a seed pod up his nose on one occasion and gets lost in a mall on another. When they finally find her brother in the mall, the Great One insists, "I always knew you were okay. I mean, who'd want to steal you? You were just being a pain, same as always."

Families can talk about compromise. When Jacob and Abigail can't agree on a movie, their dad says they need to compromise, or decide together. Given the option between red and blue, Abigail suggests they choose purple. But as their dad notes, sometimes there is no purple. Families can talk about how they find compromises. Can kids think of recent examples where they took turns or came up with another solution?