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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
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
When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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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 the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after 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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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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 whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.

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