Dr. Gabor Mate
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No siblings grow up in the same house.
No siblings have the same parents.
No siblings have the same family.
No siblings have the same childhood.
Why not?
There are a whole lot of reasons.
Number one, there's the birth order.
Parents don't relate to the first child the way they relate to the second child.
Then there's gender differences.
Parents don't really... I'm not talking about whether parents love the kids or not.
I'm talking about what actually happens.
The child doesn't experience the parent's love.
The child experiences the way the parent shows up, number one.
Number two, the parent's relationship might be in a different phase, one child in another.
The parents might be in a different economic situation.
The parent's life might be different.
Then each child will evoke a different response from the parent.
Like with my three kids or your three kids.
Yeah, you have three children.
Yeah, you have two daughters and a son.