Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
ADELE FABERWhen we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
More Adele Faber Quotes
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No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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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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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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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 deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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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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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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