As I told you, I have twins. And sometimes I think it does increase the problematic situations we parents have to deal with. This weekend, for instance, my grandmother spent here, at our house. After lunch we were watching TV - and we means me, my mother and one of my daughters, when mum asked for a coffee.
My daughter said she would take it and began receiving the most flattering words, that put her in a higher place in comparison with her sister, considered by her grandma as a little lazy, slow, not so nice and things like this. Of course she loved it but I couldn´t hear such things without pointing out that people are different and what is a quality for somebody maybe a defect for another and one should be respected and loved as a person despite of being gentle and so on.
I felt like doing it because that daughter already thinks she is something and has difficulties in accepting someone that 'appears' more than her. She is happy being the best, what of course is something she will be able to acquire only sometimes. Besides, in my oppinion it is horrible to talk about another person who isn´t present and can´t defende herself, and to make matters worse, when it comes from family, is desgusting.
Oh family, the same hand that helps you can sometimes betrail your most sensible feelings, isnt´it?
