You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
ADELE FABERFrom their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
More Adele Faber Quotes
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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
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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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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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Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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