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

Adele Faber

And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.
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Anand Thakur
No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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Best Children Fiercely First Struggle
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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Anand Thakur
We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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Let us realize that along with food, shelter, and clothing
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Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
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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
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
And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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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
Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories
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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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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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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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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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Anand Thakur

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

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