Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
ADELE FABERNo one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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Take 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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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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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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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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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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