Younger siblings' suspicions have been confirmed: Parents, especially mothers, favour their 'precious first borns' (PFBs) over the children they have later, concludes a new study.
A new study has confirmed what younger siblings have suspected for long: PFBs are a favoured lot! If you're confused, PFB is "precious first born" and research has proved that parents, especially mothers, favour them over the rest.
Among examples of attention lavished on the PFBs, mothers admit to rubbing shampoo into their own eyes to test it doesn't sting, pulling prams backwards for miles to avoid direct sunlight and even sterilising the steriliser, reports The Telegraph.
Long live first borns!
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But 'NSCs' - Neglected Subsequent Children - are regularly left to scream for attention, play with toys that the dog has licked and stew in their own juices until their parents are ready to deal with them.
The term PFB and NSCs were coined by members of the parenting website Mumsnet.
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"Precious First Born syndrome is something we can all relate to - most mums will confess to having checked on their sound asleep firstborns several times a night, whilst Neglected Subsequent Children are liable to bawl for an age before we even notice," she said.
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