Do you have a favorite child and why?

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Answers from real parents only!

Answer 1

yep!! (just one son) for now, I don't like playing favorites, many parents do that and then wonder why the other child is so disrespectful & rebellious, I plan on treating all my kids with all the same attention and love, no matter how different or what birth order.  parents playing favorites are psychologically damaging their child/children.

Answer 2

Of course I have a favorite, but she's the only one I have.

Answer 3

yes, my oldest cause i loved him first.

Answer 4

No, all children are different and maybe at different phases in yours or their lives it may appear you have a favorite but I couldn't choose one if I had to. Sometimes I am closer to one than the other, and that may always be the case, but it can change depending on many things. To choose a favorite would be wrong in my opinion.

Answer 5

No. I do not. I gave birth to both of them and they were in my womb for 9 months each. I dont have favourites MY KIDS mean the world to me.  

Answer 6

yes, but i also only have one right now. :-p so of course she is my favorite.

Answer 7

I don't have a favorite child, but I do have favorite things to do with each of my children. I like to do different things with each child.

Answer 8

Yes....But No ONE will EVER know who it is since my favorite CHANGES from Day to Day!!

Answer 9

yes   .....I have 4 kids and ones 11 ones 8 ones 5 and ones 2 and my favorite one is 11 her name is Cori I love all my kids so dearly but Cori is my favorite shes loves animals and shes so determined and uniqe  shes a strait A student although she dosnt listen very well and shes lazy  

Answer 10

I know I'm not a real parent, I am a child [teenager actually]. I say that parents should not have a favorite child because then the other child[ren] feel left out and feel like there's something wrong with them. If one child is favored over another, the other child will believe that there is something that the favorite child has that they don't. Children are children and just want to have fun. I'm sorry if you didn't want an answer from a child.

Answer 11

NOPE.  I think all children deserve equal love & attention.  people shouldn't have more than one if they want to play favorites.

Answer 12

Yes I have a favorite........MINE

Answer 13

If any parent favors one child over the others, they should have all the children taken away. It's a hurtful and unfair environment to raise the children in. Obviously the unfavored children will have bitter feelings and low self image from being unwanted, and wondering what's wrong with them that their parent favors their sibling.

The favored child will have unfair expectations and have to deal with the hatred from his or her siblings.

So, parents should be strongly cautioned to not favor one child over the others in any way, or label them.

Answer 14

I come from a family of two and i'm convinced that both my parents adore my older brother more than they do me. I'd really like to know why if I'm the successful and accomplished one...hmmm.  

Answer 15

My favorite is the one that is minding and doing as they are told.. which today is all three. lol

Actually, no, I don't have a favorite.  All three of my children are special to me in their own ways.  

Answer 16

No I honestly don't have a favorite, I love them all in different ways.  All three of them have different personalities but they all wonderful in there own ways.  My mom used to tell me the same thing when I asked her but I always tought she was lying.  Now I know she was telling me the truth.  

Answer 17

yes

Answer 18

I only have one child so of course I have a favorite :)   But I have thought about adopting and I believe I could love and treat them equally if I ever had another.

I have a sister and I believe my mother treated us equal and loved us the same but I think my dad had a favorite (my sister).  My dad is still really close to my sister even though we are adults and not close to me. It really hurt me growing up to know this and I would try my hardest to not do that to my children.

Answer 19

my parents have no choice! im an only child!!! =]

Answer 20

Kids are like anyone else. They have their strengths and weaknesses, good days and bad.

Parents who can unequivocally say they don't have a favorite on any given day probably aren't being honest. Yes, most of us love our kids equally. But that doesn't mean we like them equally every day. The trick is to make an effort to like them equally, and to cut everyone some slack and recognize that it will probably all even out in the end.

I can tell you that, last week, it took everything I had to get through an hour with my preschooler. This week, he has it together, and he's so smart and funny and wonderful, I can't stand to put him to bed. My youngest is still wonderful, but ... he's not trying to talk politics with me, now, is he?

Answer 21

I have four beautiful caring sensitive understanding loving and giving children and I can honestly say that those are the favourite things that I love about all of them.....dont favour one...its not fair on the others