Do you ever feel that your middle child gets left out or ignored? I do. I don’t do it intentionally, but I definately have noticed it lately. I was just talking to my husband about this last night. Dani is the oldest, and therefore she goes through things first so we pay extra-special attention to her stuff. Plus, she has her ADD and emotional issues that we are contantly battling. Things are a constant struggle with her. I feel we pay a load of attention to her. Then there’s Alexis who is still the “baby” of the family. She whines and complains about her sisters not wanting to play with her, or she’ll come up and want to be with me all the time. Since she is the baby, and I don’t know if I will ever have another one, everything that she goes through is huge for me because I don’t know if it is the last time I will encounter it. Does that make sense? So I make a big deal about things or pay extra attention to her. Then there’s Desiree. She is loud in her own way, but that’s just part of her personality. When it comes to every day life and struggles, she doesn’t really have any. She has no educational, emotional or physical challenges that I have to help her overcome. She doesn’t have behavioral problems. She’s just pretty normal. I feel really bad about it. I need to find time to just hang out with her or just talk to her. I feel that of my three children I “know” her the least.
Tiffany
