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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.

Adele Faber

The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Additional Child Children Disappointment Existence Family Hurt Less Signity
No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
Let us be different in our homes.
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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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From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.

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