Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
ADELE FABERFrom their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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Let us be different in our homes.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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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 whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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