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Have you a favourite child? Do you understand it?
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 23 Feb 2013 12:20 |
Reported in press this week that, I think it was, one in ten parents admitted to having a favourite. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 23 Feb 2013 12:34 |
Definitely not. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 23 Feb 2013 12:42 |
Of my OH's three, one was definitely a favourite of their mother, and it has been the basis of much trouble in recent years :-( |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 23 Feb 2013 12:49 |
only have one son and he's definitely my most favourite!!!! |
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PollyinBrum | Report | 23 Feb 2013 12:50 |
Me too AnnC. I could not ask for better <3 <3 |
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FootieAngel | Report | 23 Feb 2013 13:00 |
I love all 3 of mine equally but for different reasons and this is because they are all very different. They all make me proud daily. I have alwes felt blessed and priveledged to be their Mum. I guess I feel lucky to have such well mannered and polite young adults who are flourishing before me and helping me through life and show maturity beyond their years (and if I had listened to so called specialists - beyond their ability). They have never let me down though I feel I often let them down but they dont see my faults has others do x |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 23 Feb 2013 13:04 |
My brother was two years younger than me and he was named after my grandfather on my mother's side and was his favourite. That grandfather bought my brother a camel coat for his sixth birthday, my bother and I went out to play, and a little while later I came back home on my own, my mum shouted where is your brother and I told her I had lost him, but it was alright as I had got his coat :-) |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 23 Feb 2013 13:12 |
I have to agree with Mel ,being a mother of 3 I couldnt single one out as my fav and funny enough I have just been having this conversation with Muffy. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 23 Feb 2013 13:26 |
I have enjoyed all 3 of our children and loved them equally. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 23 Feb 2013 15:37 |
i love my daughter best because she is my daughter |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 23 Feb 2013 16:10 |
I can't imagine having a favourite child. My two have totally different personalities and talents and so we've maybe treated them a bit differently at times but that's because we were trying to cater to their needs. Always loved them equally though. |
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Kay???? | Report | 23 Feb 2013 17:28 |
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DazedConfused | Report | 23 Feb 2013 18:14 |
As an only child with no children I speak only from the outside looking in at my friends and other parents. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 23 Feb 2013 21:27 |
Glad to see we all feel the same, there are times when one child will need you more (illness, support/problems) and then it will be the other one the next time. |
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ZZzzz | Report | 24 Feb 2013 11:57 |
Only have one, we found out what caused him, don't like him at the moment he is a 30 year old teenager but love him lots :-D |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 24 Feb 2013 12:29 |
my sister has always favoured her daughter over her son |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 24 Feb 2013 12:34 |
Ann what a dreadful thing to say about a child. Some parents are very cruel. |
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JustGinnie | Report | 24 Feb 2013 12:39 |
Like everyone has said each child is different but as long as each child feels loved and accepted for who they are then in my eyes that is right. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 24 Feb 2013 12:41 |
she was a hard woman - still perhaps after 12 children [one died] I suppose I can understand to a point - they were reasonably well heeled though and she was a snob - when my father announced he was marrying my mother - she was from "the wrong side of the tracks" she immediately evicted him from the family home :-D |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 24 Feb 2013 12:43 |
As parents, we may not realise that we favour one child over another. Outsiders or, when they are are older the children, may look back and think that one was the favourite. |
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