How can parents prevent jealousy in their children?
Parents should not try to prevent jealousy. Psychological health depends upon how jealousy is handled, not upon its absence. Even in the happiest families, it is inevitable that one or another child will be given more affection and attention at one time or another. However painful, jealousy is an important emotion and it should be respected as such. If children will learn how to bear the pain of jealousy, they will eventually learn how to avoid or conquer its harmful aspectrs. In a good marriage, does a husband or a wife ever get jealous? Of course, Even in the best of marriages, mild, temporary jealousy is bond to arise. A marriage unites two people who were subjucted to the inevitable frustrations and conflicts and fears of childhood. Whenever they are humiliated or defeated, the old sources of their fears particularly te fear of being unloved, the dread of being unlovable-come to the fore. At such times, the husband or wife may seek to “exorcise” feelings of inadequacy by blaming th
