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Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .

Adele Faber

I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
The sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.
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Contain Daily Dynamite Emotional Enough Explosion Relationship Round Set Sibling
The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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Anand Thakur
And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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Anand Thakur
From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Let us be different in our homes.
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Anand Thakur
We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur
Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
ADELE FABER

Anand Thakur

Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . .

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