# can one be a good parent while playing favourites?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 10, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-one-be-a-good-parent-while-playing-favourites/581393 "2011-05-10T14:20:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-one-be-a-good-parent-while-playing-favourites/581393/4 "2011-05-10T16:01:21Z")

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oh btw this is the quote that prompted this thread -

> [@Who was the better parent?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-the-better-parent/581134/3):
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> My parents never played favorites with their kids, so I’m not going to play favorites with them. Suffice to say that I love them both very much, despite their various imperfections.

while i agree it is a classy reply, i wonder if it’s a politically correct white lie. are humans built to love people equally?

fake eta: it just occurred to me that i might have missed an important distinction between the phrase “playing favourites” and “having a favourite”. is there?

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**Alessan**

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