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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

Adele Faber

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
ADELE FABER

Accomplishment Alone Approval Attention Less Parent
Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
ADELE FABER

Additional Child Children Disappointment Existence Family Hurt Less Signity
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
ADELE FABER

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

Anand Thakur
The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
We put him in touch with his inner reality.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur

From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

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