as a parent you may be inadvertently fostering rivalry between your children as a child you may unwittingly be the pawn in your mothers or fathers attempts at splitting andor manipulating when parents foster sibling rivalry think about it imagine if your spouse put an old picture of you up and said i miss this skinny blonde person that is how teens see this i miss my baby nonsense not missing my baby im going to say the thing that moms arent supposed to say my kids eat chicken nuggets for dinner frequently and im cool with it my kids eat chicken nuggets and other parenting atrocities