When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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Anand Thakur
When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
ADELE FABERFrom their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
ADELE FABERContent in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
ADELE FABERWe put him in touch with his inner reality.
ADELE FABERLet us be different in our homes.
ADELE FABERWe have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABERThe mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
ADELE FABERComforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
ADELE FABERWe deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABERThe sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
ADELE FABERNo one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
ADELE FABERThe personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABERNo wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
ADELE FABERYou can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
ADELE FABERTake two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
ADELE FABERFrom their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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