Give a Little Attention to the Younger Kids

If you are the youngest in your family, you probably felt like your parents didn't spent quite the same amount of time with you as they did with some of your older siblings (of course we probably got away with more things than our older siblings did). According to a BYU study, your perception is true. BYU researchers found that first-born children received about 3,000 more hours of quality time with their parents between the ages of 4 and 13 than those siblings who come after them and pass through the same age window.

And the kicker is, that isn't even counting the first few years of life when the first child in inevitably coddled and pandered more than any other.

If you've just had your second or you're on to many more, remember to spend some one-on-one time with each of your children, as suggested by the Church's Home and Family Resource page.

Read the release and various stories on the study here.

Contributing: Chris Giovarelli
Photo: Jaren Wilkey/BYU