{Voices} Siblings and Parents

For this installment of {Voices}, I asked our oldest daughter to speak to issues with siblings and parents.

Here is her recorded response in Amharic. (You can save the sound file to your computer by right clicking the link.)

The roughly translated transcript is below:

“It is hard to live with siblings that are biological because you don’t understand or relate to them easily. Sometime we fight with our siblings. Because they are not biological to us, the fighting makes us feel further apart. You feel like you don’t want to talk to them anymore…just ignore them. Sometimes we think our new parents like us less than their biological children when we fight with our siblings. Sometimes we focus on the things we don’t like about them…not good things. It is hard but we have patience to work to not fight. We come here to live a new life, and we need patience. Many times we fight with our new mom and dad, but that is normal. Even when you fight, think first about what you say. Try to focus on good stuff. Even if they are saying something you don’t like, stop to listen. If you take the time to talk to them, things become good. If that does not work, pray to God. Tell God what happened and ask Him to show your family how to love and how you can love your family. Each time choose to be happy with them. Work hard. Thank you for listening.”

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