Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Are you your parents' favorite child?

Doctor Q

Doctor Q

Administrator
Original poster
Staff member
A senior editor at TIME Magazine wrote a cover story claiming that parents always have a favorite child, even though they won't admit it. The author claims that favored siblings, often the first-born son or last-borh daughter, can feel guilty for being pampered, while unfavored siblings may be jealous but are often better prepared for the adult world. Video: interview with the author.

Are you your parents' favorite? Does it matter?
 

Attachments

  • time-favoritism.jpg
    time-favoritism.jpg
    25.1 KB · Views: 726
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

I'm the spawn of mr 666 himself. Lmfao!
 
I must be, because my parents constantly invite me to visit, and sound so exasperated every time my brother calls and asks for more money 😛
 
I think my parents love me,my brother and sister equally so no, and i don't think it matters that much unless they clearly hate you....
 
I think my parents definitely favor me a little more, although they didn't always and I suspect it only began after I was already an adult. My sister is older than me, so I guess that puts us in the minority.

We were both well prepared for adulthood (and are well-functioning adults with the usual number of minor neuroses 😛).

I'd say it doesn't matter that much, except that I think over the long term I'll probably have a better relationship with my parents, but only marginally.
 
My sister is sure that I was my parents favorite child, and has spent her life being miserable about it. 🙁

Complete nonsense.
 
Doctor Q said:
Are you your parents' favorite? Does it matter?
Click to expand...
Let me answer that question by stating this:
When my sister and I finished high school and were getting ready for the next level, I was told that there was not enough money to send me to school, but my mother paid for my sister's college expenses. I had to work during the day, go to school at night and pay for it myself.
 
Not lately. To be quite frank, my parents are annoying me right now which in turn is causing them to favor my older brother.
 
I'd like to say that we're all equal in terms of favoritism, but if I had to choose, my parents probably favor me the most (my siblings might say that for themselves too).
 
Nope...my parents hate me.....and I am perfectly fine with that..Just makes a few less cards to buy at the holidays😀
 
I'm my Dad's favorite and my Mom's least favorite out of 5 sons.

So how much did my Mom NOT like me? I once brought a brand new digital camera ($1000 at the time) with my own hard earned money. Mom told me to hand it over to my brother, her favorite, and buy a new camera.😱 They guy earned 5x what I made at the time. Give me a break, Mah.🙄
 
Not in the slightest. My parents might say that they love us both equally, but yeah..😛. Not really.

I'm the younger of two brothers.


But yeah, when he was in prime-spending age (High-school/college), we weren't well off at ALL. So, he always felt guilty, and always wants to give me stuff even if it's unnecessary, and a TOTAL waste of money.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back