Do MOST parents have a favorite child?

        Believe it or not,  MOST seems they do. And there has been a study that found out the consequences of what they call “differential parenting”.

       The new study is from the Journal of Child Development, where Jenny Jenkins, the lead author of the study and professor in the department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto said, "We expected differential parenting to operate stronger within the parent-child dynamic. However, differential parenting had a stronger effect on the entire family."

      The differential parenting is something I have fought all my life. I have childhood memories of my grandmother having favoritism between her children and doing the same with her grandchildren. 

       As it says in the study, it does not only affect the parent-child relationship but that of the whole family. And how it can not if one child is given more love than the other, that other child will feel left out and will hurt the child's overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth as well as their relation with that other “ favorite” child.

Please read more of the consequences of giving one of your children more love in http://www.srcd.org.

Please do give love to all in your home!!

SVS