Jealousy makes progress!
Jealousy allows you to surpass yourself! It creates competition among young and old alike: fearing to be caught up by the younger ones, the older ones try to develop as many talents as possible while the younger ones go to great lengths to equal the older ones! A real engine of progress …
It allows you to individualize and build yourself
According to a number of child psychiatrists, each child is empowered through jealousy. Coming from the same womb, the brother appears both as a double and as a very different being. He represents for baby what is foreign, which is why he begins by being jealous of it and ends up loving it.
Through these feelings, your little ones discover each other and discover themselves! An analysis that is certainly very relevant but which hardly allows us to resolve daily rivalries …
Rules of life thanks to rivalries!
The daily confrontation with brothers and sisters allows baby to learn a number of rules which will be very useful to him later: it is the learning of life in society!
Paradoxically, jealousy quickly teaches children to understand the concepts of justice and equity.
The rivalries between siblings then make it possible to have easier contact with friends at school and to better accept their differences.