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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

Adele Faber

And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Anand Thakur
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
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 once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Let us be different in our homes.
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Anand Thakur
Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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Anand Thakur
We put him in touch with his inner reality.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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Anand Thakur
The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur

From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.

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