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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.

Adele Faber

Let us be different in our homes.
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Anand Thakur
No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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Anand Thakur
The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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Anand Thakur
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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Anand Thakur
I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.
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Anand Thakur
We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Anand Thakur
And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Anand Thakur
Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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Anand Thakur
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur

Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.

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