Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
ADELE FABERTake two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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Let us be different in our homes.
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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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 put him in touch with his inner reality.
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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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