4 Reasons Why Openly Preferring One Child can Break Your Family
It is always a tug of war between the kids in a household that has more than one kid to get the attention of the parent. Although parents try to equally love and share their love and attention with all the kids, there are times when one child especially becomes a favorite. A child can be the preferred one or the favorite one for a lot of reasons. He or she could have been a sick infant and you could have lavished a lot of affection and time to take special care for the recovery and could have gotten attached more. You can also prefer one kid to the other based on his or likeness to your partner. If you have had kids from multiple partners, you can love a kid less or more based on that too. Whatever the reasons for preferring one kid over others, it is not a healthy thing to do and it can even break up your family. Here is how.
1. It can cause sibling rivalry
When you openly prefer one kid over the other, there will be unnecessary sibling rivalry. Normal sibling rivalry is healthy but when it is induced because of your behavior, it has the potential to break up your family. Siblings will start hating each other not of their fault but because of your faulty parenting.
2. The ignored kid will move out and never come back to you
When you openly prefer another kid over others, the kids who get the least attention will eventually move out and go to a far off place both emotionally and physically that you can never get back to them no matter how much you try. The family will break up and it will be as good as losing a family member.
