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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.

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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Additional Child Children Disappointment Existence Family Hurt Less Signity
We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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Accomplishment Alone Approval Attention Less Parent
I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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Contain Daily Dynamite Emotional Enough Explosion Relationship Round Set Sibling
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle

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