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

Adele Faber

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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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
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
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.

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