Adele Faber Quotes
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Children don’t need to have their feelings agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged.
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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.
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To be loved equally,” I continued, “is somehow to be loved less. To be loved uniquely—for one’s own special self—is to be loved as much as we need to be loved.
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Sometimes just having someone understand how much you want something makes reality easier to bear.
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The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.
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I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
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When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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The more you try to push a child's unhappy feelings away, the more he becomes stuck in them. The more comfortable you can accept the bad feelings, the easier it is for kids to leg go of them.
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Steady denial of feelings can confuse and enrage kis. Also teaches them not to know what their feelings are - not to trust them.
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No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all.