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PiscesNew Mom Brooke Mueller Plays Favorites
Do you favor one of your kids over the other?
Charlie Sheen's wife Brooke Mueller recently admitted to EXTRA that her newborn twin Max is "her favorite." "Max [is my favorite]. Max is sweet and quiet. And Bob is kind of loud and cries a lot like his father," she says with a laugh.
She's not alone in playing favorites, either.
In an article in the UK's
Daily Mail, three moms sat down and openly admitted they love one of
their kids more deeply than the other. They all defended their choices
with various reasons -- some said their favorite was most like them,
while others said the birth of one child was so difficult, it triggered
a preference for the other one.
• 16% of Daily Mail readers (that's 1 in 6) admit they love one child more than the other.
• Half of the 1,000 respondents said they love their children equally -- but in different ways.
• Only 1/3 said they have the same affection for all their offspring.
The study also found that few women would openly admit to playing favorites because they're embarrassed.
• Psychologists say moms often have a hard time bonding with their
oldest child because first-time pregnancies are usually the most
difficult, thanks to the unfamiliar demands of motherhood.
Tell us -- do you love all your children equally?
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I love both of my children the same. I like them for different reasons! My husbands grandmother told me recently that my son would always be her favorite and that’s just the way it is!! I am the oldest of 3, I have 2 younger brothers. The middle child has always had a chip on his shoulder and had a bad attitude, even when he was younger. I always thought that my youngest brother and I must be the favorites. But now I realize they love us all the same, just in different ways.
I have two teenage sons. I love both of them dearly, but there are times I like one better than the other. At the end of the day I love both of them and wouldn’t give them up for nothing!!!
I have two kids and one is very easy going,funny,happy and just easy to be with and the other one is full of attitude, grumpy most of the time and hard to be with BUT I love both of them and the one with the attitude is a teenager, the other one is 4 years younger so I realize that he attitude is mainly typical “teenage” attitude and there is still sooo many great thing about him. I think it’s fine to love your children the same amount but differently but I think having a favorite already when both of the babies are just baby is kinda sad. I hope she doesn’t let it effect how she relates with them because kids can pick up on how adults feel about them just from how you deal with them.
It’s a little different for me because I have an eight year old and a two year old so they are pretty far apart in age. But, I’am very equal with both of them I don’t show any favoritsim at all. If one of them gets something, so does the other one. Not necessarily the same thing because of the age difference. It’s very important to me that neither one of them feels like I like the other one better as they get older. Obviously, I have certain times where I’am more frusterated with one than the other. I’am 27 and my little brother is 23 he goes to University of Notre Dame and I chose to go to a community college. My brother has and always will be my fathers favorite because according to my father he’s proud to say his son got into a prestigious college and can take over the family company. To this day I harldy ever talk to my dad because of his favoritisim twords my little brother. I wont put my own kids through that it feels horrible even as an adult.
Hog wash you dont love one child MORE than another.You may deal with them differently because they are individuals but when it comes down to it we still love them equally. Twins or not.
Wow, Love is a CHOICE……….
I think they are confusing love with like….Kids that are more passive or difficult tend to give us negative feelings. This is why we “choose” Love and not act on emotions………