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Understanding Sibling Rivalry Dynamics

Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity that can develop among children in a family. Factors like parental treatment, birth order, personality, and outside influences can impact the sibling bond. Giving preferential treatment to one child is toxic and will actively cause rivalry to develop among siblings. Rivalry is often more intense when there are only a few children in a family, as preferential treatment can be felt more strongly by those who do not receive it. Some adults unfortunately initiate unhealthy behaviors that can emotionally hurt and devastate children.

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Understanding Sibling Rivalry Dynamics

Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity that can develop among children in a family. Factors like parental treatment, birth order, personality, and outside influences can impact the sibling bond. Giving preferential treatment to one child is toxic and will actively cause rivalry to develop among siblings. Rivalry is often more intense when there are only a few children in a family, as preferential treatment can be felt more strongly by those who do not receive it. Some adults unfortunately initiate unhealthy behaviors that can emotionally hurt and devastate children.

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Sibling Rivalry

By: Aliah Grace L. Miranda Sibling rivalry is a type of competition or animosity among children, bloodrelated or not. Siblings generally spend more time together during childhood than they do with parents. The sibling bond is often complicated and is influenced by factors such as parental treatment, birth order, personality, and people and experiences outside the family and is particularly intense when children are very close in age and of the same gender, or where one child is intellectually gifted. This is one old age problem in the family that cannot be helped parents some parents, I mean, certainly have a liking or preference but the damage occurs when that liking becomes apparent to the other members of the family. Some children may feel they are getting unequal amount of their parents attention, discipline and responsiveness. Giving preferential treatment to one of their children is one of the most TOXIC attitude that parents can have with respect to their families. This attitude will actively cause the development of rivalry among their children. EVERY child has nagging suspicions that his parents or other older people in the family, love another one of his brothers or sisters (or cousins even!), more than they love him/her. There cannot be any good reason for adults to encourage a child's feeling of rivalry by confirming such suspicions. Rivalry is oftentimes more intense when there is only two or a few children in a family, when preferential treatment is felt more strongly by the others. Sadly sometimes,

it is the adults fault that initiated such unhealthy behavior, leaving the child emotionally hurt and devastated. This is one topic that is close to my heart, knowing how someone very dear suffered because of favoritism in the family. I consider myself lucky - for despite the fact that I have an older sister who, I myself, consider as more beautiful, more intelligent and more well-mannered than I am still, my parents didnt make me feel they love me less! And thats all that matters in the end.

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