“Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.”

No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.

The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.

Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .

And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,

You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.

And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Let us be different in our homes.

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

Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing

We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to

No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Akin is warrior or brave man

A wise man does not try to hurry history.

Has God forgotten everything I’ve done for him ?

It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.

[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation.