“We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.””

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.

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

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.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation.

It’s hard to be natural in a scene when you pick up the phone and no one is there.

No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break free from the trees And fall.

Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray!

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.