We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Anand Thakur
We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABERNo one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
ADELE FABERThe mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
ADELE FABERYou can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
ADELE FABERThe sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
ADELE FABERLet us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
ADELE FABERWe deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABERNo wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
ADELE FABERThe personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABERI was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
ADELE FABERLet us be different in our homes.
ADELE FABERNo wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
ADELE FABERKeeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
ADELE FABERFrom their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
ADELE FABERAnd once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
ADELE FABERAnd it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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