Also, as you mention - you got riding lessons, your sister got ballet lessons, your brother got driving lessons - in the examples you've given you did all get something.
Yes, but none of us all got something at the same time. If I add it up over the 18 years each of us spent as dependent children, my parents were probably fairly even-handed, though I doubt they were totting up and allowing for inflation and so forth. If you picked any one incident, no doubt it would have looked differently.
but my parents both thought they should be as even-handed with us as they could be.
Indeed - as they could be. It was impossible to buy all the children horses. Ginty obviously really wanted one: Lawrie seems (frankly) to have only wanted one because Ginty got one. Why deprive Ginty because Lawrie was going to stomp round going "it's not fair"?
Lawrie was obviously of the opinion that she doesn't get anything.
Yes. But then, Lawrie was frequently of the opinion that she doesn't get anything - a state of mind frequently found in youngest children of large families. (My sister had it to a certain extent, though not to the degree Lawrie does: I figure it's a defense mechanism the youngest child develops to avoid getting overlooked.)
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Yes, but none of us all got something at the same time. If I add it up over the 18 years each of us spent as dependent children, my parents were probably fairly even-handed, though I doubt they were totting up and allowing for inflation and so forth. If you picked any one incident, no doubt it would have looked differently.
but my parents both thought they should be as even-handed with us as they could be.
Indeed - as they could be. It was impossible to buy all the children horses. Ginty obviously really wanted one: Lawrie seems (frankly) to have only wanted one because Ginty got one. Why deprive Ginty because Lawrie was going to stomp round going "it's not fair"?
Lawrie was obviously of the opinion that she doesn't get anything.
Yes. But then, Lawrie was frequently of the opinion that she doesn't get anything - a state of mind frequently found in youngest children of large families. (My sister had it to a certain extent, though not to the degree Lawrie does: I figure it's a defense mechanism the youngest child develops to avoid getting overlooked.)