Yep ....  & by openly declaring it it keeps the kids on their toes!

looks like queen biatch JJ could win this show, what a terrible winner to finish with.

I don't think so ..............I'd like to see him go a bit further but ............he's far from a potential winner IMO.

That's just reminded me of a tactic I used with my two when they were teenagers. There is only 19 months between them so I was forever getting the "Why is he allowed to do such and such etc etc. it's because he's the favourite" I got this equally from both of them
In the end I just used to say Yep. that's right. He is the favourite. After about a month of it, when one of them whinged I'd only have to say "You know why that is don't you?" for whichever one of them it was to wander off muttering furiously
They laugh about it now

Treating them to be the same is a different thing from loving them, I just love my chidlren, no matter what they do. One is out in Afghanistan and the other is raising 2 children and fighting the establishment, Their my kids. Whatever.

  

we tell one of them that the other one is the golden child.... this infuriates the child not deemed to be golden...  especially when we call my son "bronze boy"...

but its all tongue in cheek!

It started cos of the reaction of one of them if the other one was in trouble... the other child would suddenly become all "perfect" in a gloaty & smug manner!

The dog still outranks the pair of them though!

Did I actually say I love one more than the other? TBH Cologne .........you're making a lot out of this. There is no way I love anyone of my children more than the other. If I typed it badly and you want to see it like that .........so be it. I know that I love my kids equally ......................and I don't even know why I'm trying to explain it when you're choosing to pull apart words typed on a page.

^^^   this made me wince!   

The CH4 homepage comments are still a pretty good indicator of feelings, you can post without being a forum member etc.I do..alas JJ has the young girlie vote.If he looked liked Nathan he would be toast too. Shallow perhaps but inevitable.

I'm in total agreement with you Strike...a sad end to the show if Barbie boy wins it. Here have a Toblerone,it ain't frozen.

I get exactly what you mean Soozy..some parents do have a favourite child, the one they get on with, the one that they spoil, the one that they make the others feel pushed out, not perpusly but they do push them out....I was that child....

nothing new there toblerone lady

anyone hear JJ's mom on the phone to George on BBLB she didnt seem too impressed with him

I like a different kid on different days. It depends on which one of my children is being the most compliant (I'll throw my husband in to that equation too!). My best friend at the moment is my 2nd son...he has just discovered how much he enjoys tidying up after everyone 

That was a very depressing result. I think JJ could actually win this and if he does will be imo one of the most undeserving winners ever!

i can see how that sounds and it really wasn't meant like that .......it simply meant that although I get on with him best I don't favour him over the other two. It was I agree very clumsily worded on my part.

Soozy - I understood what you meant from your initial post, and even if you did have a favourite its your business and not really something you should feel you have to defend.

Don't worry about it 

Excellent !!! .... what a result

I'm rather loving JJ now .... I absolutely loved his, "OMG are you loving it"  corin mikey take

here it is if anyone missed it


http://www.channel4.com/bigbro...-mocks-corin/play.c4

I have 2 daughters love them equally and 2 dogs love them equally.....sometimes.

Thank you Ditty .............I know I shouldn't have to defend anything - I would simply hate to be thought of like that though. I love all three of my kids unreservedly .......they are all different but I love them all equally.

I know you wont like this very much sooozy, but I get you 

...don't worry I often type things that sound right to me, but on re-reading it think, well thats not what I meant

Don't worry about it, Soozy.
I know exactly what you mean, too.

I'm the "favourite" child.

It's cos I is nice to me mam innit.

I get you too Soozy! My mum would still die as quickly for my siblings as she would for me. Despite the fact that at least one of them is eeeeevil. 

Yes, i think 89% is a fair reflection for this lying, aggressive thug - up their with Sezer... and justly so!

Soozy, don't worry, I think pretty much everyone gets it ( difficult not to after you took the time to clarify any doubt there might have been!)

My younger brother is a total ****%%@## but my parents have always loved him, I learned to love him too. I'm my dad's favourite, he doesn't even pretend that's not the case 

Don`t worry yourself Soozy
I knew exactly what you meant

I'm the youngest of eight.we were all treated the same........Well except for the 7th he was really spoilt...and then there was the 5th he was ............well you get the picture..

lal

lal!

I'm one of six, two boys and four girls, and, apart from, "Boys are so much easier than girls" and "My son the doctor" (which is how one of my brothers is introduced), we all know we are loved/tolerated equally!

We've got a " my son the lawyer" Blizz

well.... I only have one brother... 3 years younger than me!   I had to break the parents in... do all the shocking and outrageous stuff first, and get the most flak for it.   I paved the way for him to have it all...   parties, girlfriends, decadent pub crawls... and he wasted the opportunity!!!!!   I got the higher grades at school (with the 'poor effort/could do better/lacks concentration" comments)... he got the crap grades with the good comments...  

Guess who got the praise?  

I was the black sheep of the entire family when I got pregnant at 22, and within months was not only unmarried, but single!   My aunts & uncles would refer to me to my parents in a sympathetic voice! 

Funny how things turn out...  my cousins have now all screwed up way way more than me, my brother seems to have commitment issues, and has a failed marriage& belligerent manner (the two are related me thinks) ...  and I'm the one that has provided the two grandchildren to be proud of... and is married and all settled down!

And still my brother gets the red carpet treatment when he visits (which is today as it happens...  I have been summoned to be there to worship him! ) 

So... its all a load of bull if you ask me!    

I love both my kids more than anything on this planet...  but I have a closer friendship with my daughter.

My daughter is my favourite


*doesn't mention she is an only child*

hahahahaha blizz that's my mum too, we get 'my son the doctor, my son the chemical engineer, my baby boy - the creative one, and this is Suzy' 
edit ~ not really I'm the gobby one who did just as well, but daddy's pampered pooch, whereas my brothers worked very hard 

We all turned out alright though....didn't we...

Arwen

Actually I remember when I had just had my son feeling really really bad cos it felt like I had taken some love away from my daughter...   it passed, and I think it was a hormonal just had a baby thing...   but I hated it!      

Plus the boy was a screamer...   that kinda reunited the girl & I!

hmmmm I dunno Lal 

 yep.... that is pretty much how it goes for me too!


hell yeah! 


This thread has ended up being timed perfectly for me...   I am gonna bowl up to my parents shortly...  full of self belief & my head held high!