Adele Faber Quotes

United States, Author
January 12, 1928

Adele Faber is an American author. She writes books about parenting and families and is an expert on communication between adults and children. She currently resides in Long Island, New York and is the parent of three children.

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.

Adele Faber
- Trouble
- Count
- Each Other
Children don’t need to have their feelings agreed with; they need to have them acknowledged.

Adele Faber

Sometimes just having someone understand how much you want something makes reality easier to bear.

Adele Faber
- Want
- Reality
- Understand
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.

Adele Faber
- Need
- Loved
- Uniquely
When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

Adele Faber
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.

Adele Faber
The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves.

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- Important
- Words
- Attitude
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.

Adele Faber
- Children
- Problems
- Expert

Steady denial of feelings can confuse and enrage kis. Also teaches them not to know what their feelings are - not to trust them.

Adele Faber
- Feelings
- Denial
- Kis
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.

Adele Faber
- Better
- More
- Worse