Do grandparents pick favorites?

I think some dont some do. My dad doesn't he treats all eight grandchildren the same. The eldest being 21 and the youngest at nearly 2. He sees my five children more than the others but he still doesn't treat them any different. Unlike my late mother-in-law who doted on my second elsest son. She told me she didn't like my eldest because he was too quiet and she didn't like my daughter simply because she was a girl, i suppose having two sons, she never knew what it was like to have a daughter.

yes they do select favourites.........

As a grandmother i think we pick favorites. But for now i'm not faced with knowing that for sure seeing that i only have the one grandson. I do hope that if i do have more i dont show favortism, i would like to think i would treat all fairly. Because i would'nt want to hurt or alienate anyone of them.

yes they do and also i think even parents pick favorites its happened to me .... most of the time i don't care about them picking favorites and all ... but sometimes they do hurt me with their behavior.

Of course they do. Though it is not good to pick favorites, it is actually quite natural. It is only a problem when you treat peoplel differnetly because of it. I am an older sister to two boys. Thought I feel really bad admitting this and would never tell them to their faces... I have a favorite younger brother. It doesn't even feel good tyoing this and I would never even say out loud which one it is but I can't deny that I do have a favorite and it is something that I can't help. I've actually tried to change the wy that I feel...but to no avail :-(

yes grandparents pick favorites, in our case our grandparents from mother side got a favorite grandson, the eldest cousin of ours is their favorite. And my grandpa and ma are proudly admitting it and telling it to our face that he is their favorite. I grew up knowing that, and whether this cousin do bad or good things, for my grandparents, he is always good, so don't try fighting for this cousin because when grandma and pa knows about it for sure they will combat you..he he he I think this favoritism among grandchildren is not healthy at all, because even if they are only grandparents, I think that the NOT favorite grand children feels neglected too. in our case, we seldom go to my grandparents house because we know that we are not special for them so why waste our time with them.