No matter the amount of younger siblings are in your life, if you're an older sister you have an important role in all your brother's and sister's lives. Your younger siblings look up to you, learning right from wrong. And no matter how irritating they can get they love you no matter how many fights you have with one another; because they know you love them too.
With the role of an older sister there are a few requirements ... such as testing your parents limits and accepting the punishment, only so your siblings know when to stop pushing the line when it comes to mom and dad. You're sorta like a guinea pig child: testing rules and curfews, seeing what you and the rest of the family can get away with. Hopefully your brothers and sisters learn from your mistakes and avoid all unnecessary punishment.
Even though there are days when you actually can't stand one of your siblings, you have to know when to drop the fight and stand by there side. Weather it be with parents or a school mate you eventually become a team that fights together. As angry as you might be with a brother or sister; no kid from school is going to be putting them down. Nobody hurts your brothers or sisters.
Sometimes your younger siblings won't learn from the mistakes you made, so when they come asking for help and you know what the punishment entails — you tend to cover for them. They have to make their own mistakes and face their own punishments, not make your mistakes and get your punishments.
Being an older sister also means you're a role model, no one is expecting you to be perfect (even though it feels that way sometimes) but it is nice to set a good example for all the little ones that want to be like you. When it comes down to it, being an older sister is so many different jobs, and sometimes it is the most irritating job in the world. Deep down though all older sisters have one thing in common, we love all our brothers and sisters and wouldn't trade the exhausting job of being their older sister for the world.
