Do you have a favourite child?

jetplane

No parent ever admits to having a favourite.

Parents also say that they treat their children the same but I think this is untrue because all children are different and therefore they have to be dealt with differently. Doesnt mean that one is treat unfairly though.

Why do so many children think that a sibling is their favourite? My brother knows that I was the favourite and I know that he was and we both have valid reasons. :cool:

Jellybro

If any of mine ask me who I love the most..... I just say the cat.!

neverdespairgirl

jetplane wrote: »

No parent ever admits to having a favourite.

Parents also say that they treat their children the same but I think this is untrue because all children are different and therefore they have to be dealt with differently. Doesnt mean that one is treat unfairly though.

I don't think my parents treated us all the same - my sisters spent lots of time having riding lessons, for example, while my brother and I didn't - we didn't want to. My Dad took (and still takes) one sister and my brother to football matches, because other sister and I don't see the point.

But then I did other things that I did enjoy, and was given opportunities that I wanted. So it was swings and roundabouts.

DKLS

I do have a fave niece and to be fair she makes it easy to like her, I am convinced her parents picked up someone else's baby at the hospital with her sister.

Lequirk_2

I don't do favourites of anything. I am too indecisive. Regarding my children, i certainly have different relationships with them. I am closer to one of them and get mores stressed over the other, but it doesn't lead me to favour one child over the other.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Absolutely not.

However, the one that has always been far more work is also the one who has always been more like me, so she's been easier to get along with because I could understand why she reacted in certain ways, whereas the other could be a complete mystery to me at times.

They both sound like me now, to the abject horror of one of the exMILs. :cool:

Threebabes

I don't have a favourite though I find my youngest who is 10 the easiest. The other two teenagers can be moody and hard work. The middle one who is coming up 14 is a cheeky so and so, where is the 18 year old is not cheeky but can be huffy. Kids!

SpendlessKaren

My Mum favoured my brother and made it quite clear. This meant my sister and I had a very fractured relationship with her
I love my 2 children equally and would never treat them differently

Angelicdevil

SpendlessKaren wrote: »

My Mum favoured my brother and made it quite clear. This meant my sister and I had a very fractured relationship with her
I love my 2 children equally and would never treat them differently

Same! My parents worship the ground my brother walks on and it's caused so many problems with our relationships with them They (especially my mother) treat him so differently, it's very sad.

My sister barely talks to my parents now, it will be the second Christmas in a row that she has gone on holiday for. If I'm honest, I "tolerate" my mother.

I am a daddy's girl though. My father and I are very similar and I'm there to listen and talk things through with him when he needs an ear.

Will my parents admit to having a favourite? No. But anyone close to the family, or indeed our friends, can see quite clearly what's going on.

New_and_Improved_Me

SpendlessKaren wrote: »

My Mum favoured my brother and made it quite clear. This meant my sister and I had a very fractured relationship with her
I love my 2 children equally and would never treat them differently

Are you from an Indian/Pakistani family?

Just curious

Because i know boys sometimes get treated better