The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone … - Adele Faber

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Having loved the Stones all the time I was growing up, I wasn't about to see them go and split up. It got very close to it in the 80s, when Mick thought that Keith hated him and vice versa.

Adele Faber

The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention for hurts and disappointments. Less approval for accomplishments. . . . No wonder children struggle so fiercely to be first or best. No wonder they mobilize all their energy to have more or most. Or better still, all.

Approval, Children, Disappointment, Hurt, Wonder

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Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other; the resentment that each child feels for the privileges of the other; the personal frustrations that they don't dare let out on anyone else but a brother or sister, and it's not hard to understand why in families across the land, the sibling relationship contains enough emotional dynamite to set off rounds of daily explosions.

Brother, Children, Sibling, Attention, Parents

When we acknowledge a child's feelings, we do him a great service. We put him in touch with his inner reality. And once he's clear about that reality, he gathers the strength to begin to cope.

Children, Reality, Feelings, Strength, Cope, Inner

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

Children, Deprive, Experience, Giving, Instant, Wrestling

Deep inside you know
when trouble comes
and there's no one else to turn to
you can call on each other
and count on each other. . .
because each other
is all you have.