Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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Anand Thakur
Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
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I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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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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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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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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