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[quote=Anonymous]I have three kids; 15, 15, 12.

G15 and B12 are very active, driven kids who have excelled in their sports of interests which means they’re spending their summer traveling for events.

G15 has made it to Nationals for gymnastics and therefor has had some one on one time with me when we travel for competitions.  B12 is in travel soccer and usually DH takes him to his games almost every weekend.

B15 is feeling left out and is demanding a one on one vacation with us.  We do one on one activities with him (he’s spent a weekend camping with Dad, many days with just me) but he wants us to take him out of state for a special trip like his siblings.

We’ve explained these are for sporting events and not vacation (although we do some fun things and site seeing).

It feels like B15 is jealous his siblings are busy with various events due to their extracurricular activities but he has always refused to put forth effort with anything and has always just barely passed by.

I feel like it’s a natural consequence that he’s missing out.  Is this cruel?  We aren’t intentionally holding him back but he refused to stick with any sport or instrument and now he’s seeing the payoff with his siblings who have…[/quote]

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