Hitting or grabbing siblings
The problem You are a full-time referee.
The hack Teach a "stop hand": a flat palm and one word, "Stop!". Practice it in a calm moment with a stuffed animal. Then, in the heat of it, you only need to point to the hand, and you coach what to do instead.
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