My 13 year old daughter is beautiful, popular, clever, kind, artistic, exceptionally good at maths and sciences, sings like an angel and she's also funny .... but her younger sister (by 16 months) is all these too (with slightly different emphases) and as far as academics goes, she is off the scale. We don't treat the girls differently and love them equally however DD1 feels upstaged by DD2 and it is now becoming an issue - particularly when they bring reports home from school. I keep emphasising that academic success is not everything, that DD1 is plenty successful in her own right (we are incredibly proud of her) however, I don't think it is fair to minimise DD2's successes either. Help.
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