Siblings

[D'OHnut]

Do you have siblings? If so, do you find that they are treated differently to you? For instance, it is generally considered that the younger sibling is the most spoilt. Is this true in your family? What differences are there in your family?

[VinylVicky]

NO

[sfnu]

yes a spoilt little git of a brother. :rolleyes:

[Faith]

I have a younger brother, he's 18. We've always been treated the same, both were spoilt. I used to be the one who got told off if we were fighting though - "You're older you should know better". But now it's the opposite, they say to my bro "Leave her alone, you're bigger than her" lol :rolleyes:

[Jaloux]

I do have two older brothers.
Yes, I am probably a tad bit more spoilt than they are. (:p)
Yes, I feel that we are treated differently. But mainly because of the whole gender thing. Mom keeps telling me to tidy but never barks at my brother about it (my "older" brother has moved out so I'm talking about the "younger" (6 years older than I tho)). And then she says it's because he's 18 already. :rolleyes: Not many months to go till she wont be able to say a thing! MWAH!

But we're also treated a bit differently because we are totally different persons.

I don't think it's easy to be a parent, oh no. :p

[Acrobat]

Yes. I AM the spoilt younger sister out of the two of us :D

[*hellie*]

Originally posted by Faith
I used to be the one who got told off if we were fighting though - "You're older you should know better". But now it's the opposite, they say to my bro "Leave her alone, you're bigger than her" lol :rolleyes:

That is exactly the same in my house. :D

We get treated pretty much the same though, the only real difference is my parents used to let me go out clubbing with no curfew or anything from the age of about 16.

My brother has just turned 16 and they keep a really close eye on where he is and he generally has to be in at 9pm the latest! I find it a bit weird as I thought they'd be more protective over me as I'm female, I didn't used to complain though! :D

[Glittery]

Im the "baby" of the family, Im 21, I have a sister of 30 and a brother of 27. When we were younger though <B>EVERYTHING</B> used to get blamed on me, wasnt fair :(

My brother is my Dads fave and my sister is my Mums fave, oh yeah then theres me :rolleyes:

[hotphoenix]

I'm the olderst and have 2 brothers aged 17 and 18. We have an odd relationship coz i hav brought them up with my dad since they were 4 and 5 ( i think) and mum walked out. They get away with murder, never doing any house work etc, my dad does the lot.

The 18 yr old has dysphraxia so has always got his way more, the youngest hasn;t done so bad though!! I think my dad was harder on me too coz i'm his little girl so he didn't want me getting into any trouble!!!

Also i thiink that parents relax more after the first child if they are (like i was) really good

[candy]

i'm the oldest in our clan at 22....my wee brothers are only 10 and 6, which is a bit mad as my little girl is 3

[Sa-ra-ra-ra]

I have one younger sister, and i do think that mum treats us fairly similarly (for our ages, as it were), bearing in mind that we have completely different personalities. She's 14 and bigger and stronger than me, but whenever i start on her, mum sticks up for her, even though we both know perfectly well that she could knock me out if she wanted to! I do get a bit miffed sometimes, cos we're paying for her to go to a private school (she's really shy, chubby, reads a lot and wears glasses, and would have SERIOUSLY big problems sticking up for herself in anyof the schools where i live), and it annoys me sometimes when we're told that i cant' have something (like a new light cos mine broke :rolleyes: ) cos we can't afford it. Also, when mum treats anna like she's all little and pathetc, just cos she's younger, like getting me to carry her suicase down the stairs or something, and as i've already said, SHE'S STRONGER THAN ME!!! Ah well, i love her really and we get on ok.

My HUGE niggle is that she gets all the things i fought for SO long with mum for, straight away, and just takes them for granted!

[BumbleBee]

I have a younger brother. I am 19 and he is 16.

I had more freedom than his when I was younger than he does. I could stay out later and I could go furhter afield on my own. I think this was because I was far more mature than he is now and I was in a long term relationship anyway.

When I had just turned 16 I went abroad with my boyfriend for a holiday. My parents would never dream of letting my brother go abroad now!!

My parents know that you should treat each child on their own merits and not make comparisons.

[slinkyGirl1]

I have a younger sister - she is 18 i am 21.

I must admit, i have been and always will be daddys little girl.

My sister got the short end of the stick, i never had a curfew and was generally allowed to do what i wanted. She has a curfew.

I did have to take the blame for most things, being the older and more responsible one.

:p

[lil_minx]

i think we get treated very differently....

since the age of 10 i have had much more freedom than my younger sister, when i reached 14 i had more freedom than my sister does at 14... but i think thats due to our personalities, my parents think im more sensible etc...

iin terms of being spoilt, my sister does get spolit, she was given a £700 computer the other day, cus ma parents felt like it... wheres my £700 worth of computer ay? (i use my dads) and my rents spoil her in terms of money.. they spend so much on her every week with clothes, going out money etc.. but thats not cus shes younger thats down to personality too, because my sister is greedy (i love her... but she is v greedy hehe) and if she wants something, she gets it. i dont ask for stuff off my family.

So i dont think its down to age or anything...

i get the blame for more... but its because when i do things wrong, i always own up-my sister never does, so think that she doesnt do a thing wrong, and when something happens my rents think its me again-im just not owing up to it :p


but thats life... :p

[Carolina]

Only child. Dad tended to spoil me when i was younger to try and make up for the fact he wasn't around too much because of work and the fact that our home life was never too happy or normal. But i don't do tantrums or other crap that you associate with spoilt brats.

[KinkyBoots]

Im a middle child, got an older and a younger brother (oh the joy!! :rolleyes: ) I find that altho its best to treat us all the same, we can get treated differently due to age, whether were there youngest, middle or oldest etc. For example, its quite often that my older brother gets to do pretty much all he wants, my mum will let him travel to far off places that he's never been (Eg - a concert in London on his own) where as I'd usually have to get round her different ways cos I dont think its that easy being a teenage girl and wanting to do your own things. Whereas my little brother would have to ask each time if he wanted to go somewhere on his own, the answer is usually no unless he's with someone. We dont live with our dad, who is much more easy going than my mum. So I think we all get treated differently to be honest.

*Ok, will stop babbling!!*