Child's play? Not at all, says Dr David Campbell, consultant clinical psychologist, who explains that children as young as seven are busy ... their identity outside the family.
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'They are developing relationships that give them ... about what kind of person they are - pretty, sporty, and so on. It's a very important time for them.
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Psychological theories indicate that women are more ... to find their identity through relationships than boys, who define themselves more through activities,' he adds.
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'At first, rejections are ... painful for girls, so they can seem much more important than they really are.'
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He points out that the oldest child may feel more threatened by relationships that ... wrong.
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'If they lose a girlfriend at school, it reverberates with all their past experiences of ... to siblings.'
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