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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”

Adele Faber

Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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Anand Thakur
No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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Let us be different in our homes.
ADELE FABER

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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
ADELE FABER

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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
ADELE FABER

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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur

We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”

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