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

Adele Faber

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient.
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Anand Thakur
The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
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Our job is to let our children know what’s right about them.
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The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
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Additional Child Children Disappointment Existence Family Hurt Less Signity
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
And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.
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And once he’s clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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From their verbal sparring they learn the difference between being clever and being hurtful.
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Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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The whole world will tell them what’s wrong with them–out loud and often.
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Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;
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Anand Thakur

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

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