Nothing is fair in love and war…or cupcakes and siblings. Try as we might, we can’t provide the same childhood experiences to each child we may be blessed with (and I use the term blessed with all due respect owed to whomever and whatever Creator, omniscient being, doctor, partner, scientist, birth mother, surrogate, stork or dumb luck fairy you might believe it is owed). I remember reading an article once about how these two kids who grew up with the same parents, in the same house, had drastically different recollections of certain of childhood events. I remember thinking, “of course they did!”
We all approach each situation with different eyes and expectations. We look at the same exact thing and see different things. Eyewitness accounts vary greatly when people are interviewed after a crime is committed. One saw a 6 foot ten, pasty twenty-something. Another saw a red hat on a kid of about 5’ 7”. Another saw a knife with a black handle and nothing else. It is it any wonder that kids in the same house, experiencing the same thing recall it differently? I have a sister. She and I have not compared notes, but I am as sure as my face is freckled that my sister has a different recollection of our shared childhood on a number of major points. Continue reading