From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
ADELE FABERAdd to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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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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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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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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Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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