Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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Anand Thakur
Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
ADELE FABERLess time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
ADELE FABERAnd it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
ADELE FABEROur job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
ADELE FABERYou can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
ADELE FABERFrom the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
ADELE FABERNo one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
ADELE FABERFrom their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
ADELE FABERThe personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABERWe deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABERDeep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
ADELE FABERWe have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABERLet us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
ADELE FABERContent in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
ADELE FABERNo wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
ADELE FABERI was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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