The Effects of Sibling Competition

Parents often wonder why their children are so different from each other even though they are raised in the very same family.

When kids don’t meet parent expectations

“My daughter told me he got an 86% on his Math test. She was somewhat proud of himself, however I looked at him and said, “You didn’t try hard enough.”

She got quite angry and said, “Isn’t 86 good enough for you?”

I know she’s really good at math and if she had tried harder she could have got a 90 or more.