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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.

Adele Faber

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
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From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
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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
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
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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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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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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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Let us be different in our homes.
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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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

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