• Dave@lemmy.nz
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    2 months ago

    My youngest doesn’t realise you’re supposed to have one favourite. Just thinks of it as meaning they really like it, so they have 50 favorite people, 5 favorite colours, 10 favourite foods.

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      2 months ago

      I mean thats how normal healthy people think from what i understand. You shouldnt constantly be ranking people in your head. Ofcourse you have groups of priority but going “this is No1 this is No2, …” would be a pretty weird way to live your life.

      Obsession with absolute numeric rankings is just something that gets drilled into our heads early on by school and sometimes parental expectations.

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        2 months ago

        After asking hundreds of times, my kids are resigned to the fact that I don’t have a favourite colour. But I still get looks of disbelief when I tell nieces and nephews.