Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.
ADELE FABERThe mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less.
More Adele Faber Quotes
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From the normal irritations of living together, they learn how to assert themselves, defend themselves, compromise.
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When we acknowledge a child’s feelings, we do him a great service.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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We deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
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From their endless rough-housing with each other, they develop speed and agility.
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The resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other;
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We have another obligation to our children, and that is to affirm their “rightness.”
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And it’s not hard to understand why in families across the land,
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And sometimes, from their envy of each other’s special abilities they become inspired to work harder, persist and achieve.
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You can call on each other / and count on each other … / because each other / is all you have.
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Let us be different in our homes.
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Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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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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