Being The Oldest Sibling

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Being the oldest sibling is difficult for many reasons. The first reason why being the oldest sibling is difficult is because of the responsibilities that are placed upon us. An experience I have with the responsibility of my younger siblings is when my mother was working, and I was asked to take care of my younger siblings. My mother had told me to help my little sister do her kindergarten homework and help her clean her room because she could not do it herself. After I finished helping with my sisters homework, I continued to do my homework and then my mother came home. After she came in, she checked if I had done what she told me to do. She saw that I did not do it and told me, “Noel, why didn't you help your sister clean her room? Didn’t …show more content…

One of my friends from my third period literature class had a very interesting experience involving her younger sibling. They were watching PawPatrol on Disney Jr. in some day after church in September. Her brother loved that show so much that he watched it everyday. His older sister has enough of that show, and changed the channel to Property Brothers on HGTV. Her younger brother got very angry and proceeded to hit her. She couldn't hit him back because he was so young and small, and she knew that he would tell their parents and she would be in big trouble. She told her parents, but they did nothing about it. She knew he was not going to stop until he got what he wanted; the remote control. She gave him the control and at last, he stopped hitting her. The experience I have like this involves my little 5 year old sister. I was sitting down stairs when I heard her calling my name. I responded to her, and then she asked me if I would take her a water bottle upstairs. I said I would, and so I did. I took it upstairs and she asked me if I could open it, so I opened it. As I was handing it to her while it was open, she dropped it and became very mad because it had gotten all over her bed. She then let all her anger out on me by hitting me on my arm. She was only 5 years at that time, so it didn't really hurt. I said sorry and she forgave me, and just like that, I was my sisters best friend

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