I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABERLess time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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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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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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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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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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Let us be different in our homes.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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