Let us be different in our homes.
ADELE FABERTake two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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.
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments 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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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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