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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have three children, all adults now. Dh is a middle child and had this concern, so we tried our best to treat everyone fairly and give each child an equal amount of attention. The result? All three children think that one of the other siblings was favored over the other two. Each of them named a different sibling! I guess is all depends on the perspective. We did our best. [/quote]

Actually, PP, I've heard this is how you know you parented well! It's rare for each kid to think of themselves as the favorite (we all feel competitive with our siblings), so if every kid thinks another is the favorite, you did well. If everyone names the same kid, you really did favor one, and that's very very bad.[/quote]

Yup. The only people in my family who don't know that my sister is the favorite are my sister and our parents. Everyone else -- me, my brothers, my aunts and uncles, cousins, all our spouses, even our kids, even my sisters kids, know. It's comical sometimes because someone will point it out and then my sister and my mom will go 10 rounds explaining how everyone is wrong and "being mean" and why does everyone always "gang up" on my sister anyway? Like ZERO self awareness.[/quote]

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