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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.

Adele Faber

No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less.
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Anand Thakur
Take two kids in competition for their parents’ love and attention.
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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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Accomplishment Alone Approval Attention Less Parent
We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Anand Thakur
And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.
ADELE FABER

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

Anand Thakur
No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.
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Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there’s no one else to turn to
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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We put him in touch with his inner reality.
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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
Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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The personal frustrations that they don’t dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister,
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Anand Thakur

No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.

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