I love this! Perfectly said.
My easy child's aren't mean to difficult child to his face, but they can be quite awful about him behind his back. For a long time I supported that because I felt that his life story had brought a lot of badness to their lives, and I didn't want them to bury their feelings or not feel validated...but enough is enough. In the end...as some one else said, aren't we all grown up enough to stop being bratty?
Echo