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PCs, g f gs, sibling relationships. Not sure how to handle this
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 538834" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Thank you for the suggestion. Sounds like a good idea, I will do that.</p><p></p><p>My easy child is also just a bit shy of 16, but our kids get to drive only at 18. But he is able to use public transport or his bike to get where he wants to go. But we are not really expecting things to get heavy between difficult child and me or husband in this break. difficult child is really doing well just now and while we have our worries (lots of them, difficult child is under a lot of stress and that worries me), his visit home is likely to be peaceful.</p><p></p><p>My easy child is very nice kid and the reason I worry about this is, that he is not very good at expressing his anger. I think it would be better, if he would be able to do it. But he doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings, not even difficult child's. I also suspect that difficult child doing well right now is difficult for easy child. While difficult child is older, he has always been the troubled one, the looser. Severely bullied at school, not really well-liked anywhere, no friends, troubles with teachers etc. while easy child has always been very popular kid. Lots of friends, girls liking him, captain of his teams, well-liked by his teachers etc. So while big brother, easy child has never looked up to difficult child but felt superior to him. And while much of this is of course still the same, there are, first time ever, some things where difficult child is getting more positive attention than easy child. difficult child is doing really well with his sport and it starts to show. In the same time it seems, that easy child may never have that kind of talent. And the idea that difficult child could achieve the dream they both share and easy child not, even when he is 'the good kid' and does everything right, feels very wrong and unfair to easy child.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 538834, member: 14557"] Thank you for the suggestion. Sounds like a good idea, I will do that. My easy child is also just a bit shy of 16, but our kids get to drive only at 18. But he is able to use public transport or his bike to get where he wants to go. But we are not really expecting things to get heavy between difficult child and me or husband in this break. difficult child is really doing well just now and while we have our worries (lots of them, difficult child is under a lot of stress and that worries me), his visit home is likely to be peaceful. My easy child is very nice kid and the reason I worry about this is, that he is not very good at expressing his anger. I think it would be better, if he would be able to do it. But he doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings, not even difficult child's. I also suspect that difficult child doing well right now is difficult for easy child. While difficult child is older, he has always been the troubled one, the looser. Severely bullied at school, not really well-liked anywhere, no friends, troubles with teachers etc. while easy child has always been very popular kid. Lots of friends, girls liking him, captain of his teams, well-liked by his teachers etc. So while big brother, easy child has never looked up to difficult child but felt superior to him. And while much of this is of course still the same, there are, first time ever, some things where difficult child is getting more positive attention than easy child. difficult child is doing really well with his sport and it starts to show. In the same time it seems, that easy child may never have that kind of talent. And the idea that difficult child could achieve the dream they both share and easy child not, even when he is 'the good kid' and does everything right, feels very wrong and unfair to easy child. [/QUOTE]
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