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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.

Adele Faber

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 mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Additional Child Children Disappointment Existence Family Hurt Less Signity
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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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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From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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Let us be different in our homes.
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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Accomplishment Alone Approval Attention Less Parent
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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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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Contain Daily Dynamite Emotional Enough Explosion Relationship Round Set Sibling

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