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- Aug, 1992 Issue |
Sibling Perceptions
Pennsylvania State University
child psychologist Robert Plomin and Judy Dunn point to evidence
that growing up in the same familial world actually can work
to make siblings different. This is because each child has
developed his or her own customized environment and unique
filter that will interpret events differently. Another reason
is the fierce tendency for siblings to make comparisons in
how he or she is treated. Thus, evenhanded and consistent
treatment by parents will still be perceived differently by
different sibling because of the children seeing the same
event at a different age, and this different perception will
have powerful influence on personality. The advice for parents
is to relax. What a parent does to and for offspring matters
very much, but only in ways that can’t be controlled or foreseen.
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© 1992, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
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