how to select all childs other than a element
<p>I have a element which contains 3 child. let says </p>

<pre><code>&lt;div class="parent"&gt;

&lt;div class="firstChild"&gt;firstChild&lt;/div&gt; 
SecondChild
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;thrid child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>In the example I need to select first 2 childs and not the UL. how to do through jquery.</p>
