"The worst kept secret in parenting is that many parents can and actually DO have favorite children," blogs Loraleechoate in blogher. Loraleechoate posts a picture of her favorite, her infant son who is resting quietly while sucking his thumb. She writes, "my life, my job, my baby boy....I have four boys and ALL OF THE HAVE BEEN MY FAVORITE AT THAT AGE." A second mother, Laura, blogging in Motherhood Later...Than Sooner, agrees that she, too, has a favorite child. Laura believes that favoritism is inevitable and believes it to be a natural response to "passive infant manipulation" that is particularly obvious when mothering infant twins. Laura writes, "When you have twins, people like to jokingly ask which one is your favorite. You can't answer them honestly or they would look at you like ...