And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
ADELE FABERAnd it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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Let us be different in our homes.
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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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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