We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Anand Thakur
We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABERI was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABERThe whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
ADELE FABEROur job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
ADELE FABERFrom their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
ADELE FABERNo wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
ADELE FABERNo wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
ADELE FABERThe resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
ADELE FABERThe personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABERLet us be different in our homes.
ADELE FABERWhen we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
ADELE FABERKeeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
ADELE FABERThe sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
ADELE FABERWe deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABERLet us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
ADELE FABERAnd once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
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