It’s true, however, that being the oldest sibling can be one of the hardest jobs at home. Let’s face it, your parents expect you or rather, want you to be a pure angel with no devils sitting on your shoulders so that your younger brother or sister can look up to you as a role model that would never do anything wrong. It’s hard to try to be perfect, that’s for sure, but when you’re the oldest you always have to make sure to do the right thing so that you can be a good role model to your younger siblings.
In this generation today, cursing is a big thing and a lot of kids curse. It’s deemed normal to hear. As older siblings, we pick up habits and we curse as well, but that’s certainly not the kind of language your parents want you to use around your brother or sister, or at all. Therefore, we have to be careful with how we speak at all times and what we choose to say out loud in front of our younger siblings because we don’t want them to pick up those habits and start speaking like that at a young age.
As we get older, our patience gets smaller. Therefore, we get more upset easily and more angry whether it’s with our friends or family. When we get upset, it is quite obvious that we get loud and we yell mean things that we shouldn’t around our siblings. So, if a younger sibling is in the room with us or next to us, we have to speak in a civil manner so they don’t think that yelling is the right thing to do and speak quietly so they do not hear us if we were too get loud or use language that isn’t appropriate for them to hear.
When it comes to outfits, most likely your younger sibling will follow what you wear and want to wear the same thing you do. Even though crop tops and short skirts and dresses are popular for girls, you don’t want your younger sister going out and wearing that since you’re most likely to be overprotective of her. But as for your younger brother, sagging pants is popular today and that’s not what you want to see your younger brother pick up from you either so we have to choose an alternative.
Then there is food. When you’re sitting at the dinner table eating dinner with your family, we have to sit and eat our vegetables and act like we’re enjoying them so that our younger siblings will enjoy and learn to eat them as well because after all, it is healthy and it's just what they need. It sucks for us older siblings who don’t like to eat vegetables, but we do want the best for our siblings and out of love, we have to do everything to help guide them.
It’s evident that being the oldest sibling can be difficult at times because we have to watch our every move and seriously think before we make a choice at home in front of our younger siblings. Us older siblings want nothing but the best for them and we want them to grow up to be perfect and just like us.
I try to be the best role model I can be for my sister and I try to help her as much as I can because I want her to look up to me and to be the best person she can be!
