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

Adele Faber

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
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
Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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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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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
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Let us be different in our homes.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.

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