Why is the order of parent and child different depending on where you select them?

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Using Unity 4. In parenting, for ex. if you select cube first then sphere in HIERARCHY and parent them from the GameObject menu = Cube becomes the parent. If you do it in the SCENE VIEW (cube first, then sphere (Selecting with Ctrl or Shift))and parent them from the GameObject menu = Sphere becomes the parent. Why!?

Just wondering. Thanks.

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Do your parenting in the heirarchy! Never heard of parenting in Scene View, just forget about it.
Its a drag and drop, you drag your object(child) on the other pbject (parent), check the image W11321-parenting.jpgW
In this example, the cube is the parent