Best of friends - sometimes


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Originally uploaded by waycool27.
The 3 youngsters in the picture are mostly the best of friends. They can play together in the park, run around, scream together and so on. It's real fun watching them interact.

There are occasional moments of heated anger and crying as the friendship is tested through the sharing of toys, vehicles and (sometimes, but hardly) food.

In such times, the smallest boy becomes the fiercest and the two older children end up being bullied. Maybe it is a self-defence mechanism kicking-in to make sure he gets his fair share. The older ones tend to give way at that point to avoid injury.

Years from now, they'll all sit down to a cup of tea and laugh about this.