Chances are you have at least one sibling (if you are American). The odds are even greater that they have something they can do much better than you. Don't worry, though, you probably have something you excelled at that your brother didn't. Think about why that might have been your forte. Maybe because what your brothers were good at was already taken? Now consider this: What if I were an only child? Instead of having one thing to be good at, you would probably be multi-talented. This is the case of the Chinese girl in the documentary 2 Million Minutes, an only child, and it is unquestionably surprising. 2 Million Minutes follows 6 different students – a boy and a girl from America, China and India – as they apply to universities. The Documentary According to Dr. Nina Howe and Dr. Holly Recchia, there are four main parts of a sibling relationship in the early stages. The first is that sibling interactions tend to be “strong, uninhibited emotions of positive, negative, and sometimes ambivalent qualities.” The second is based on the fact that the brothers have such a close bond from the fact that they spend all their time together. The third is that each sibling will have a different amount of effort in each sibling relationship, creating a gap. The fourth is the age difference between the children - this can make or break the outcome. An age difference means there may be a power struggle between siblings, or there may be a support system. According to Jensen, Alexander C., and Mchale, in a study conducted to examine the relationship between parents' beliefs in their children and their academic success, parents who believed that one child was more intelligent than the other saw that child as performing better than his brother the following year. In contrast, parents who thought one child was not as competent as the other saw that child as not performing as well as the other sibling. They speculate that this may be because children pick up these expectations from their parents and work to meet them. In the case of an only child, this effect would not occur: parents can expect their only child to be fine. The child should not face competition in the home, where who has more than one child