We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABERWe deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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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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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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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 sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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