From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
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Anand Thakur
From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
ADELE FABERThe personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABERI was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABERI was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
ADELE FABERKeeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
ADELE FABERThe sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
ADELE FABERYou can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
ADELE FABERAdd to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
ADELE FABERNo wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
ADELE FABERWe deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABERWe have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
ADELE FABERThe mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
ADELE FABERAnd it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
ADELE FABERDeep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
ADELE FABERNo wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
ADELE FABERLess time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .
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