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

Adele Faber

Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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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
And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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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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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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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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We 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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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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Anand Thakur

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

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