For those who have younger siblings, have you ever taken a good look at their life? Noticed that they are almost out of their awkward stage? Or what we used to consider the awkward stage of life. There are 7th and 8th graders trying to get away with wearing skimpy clothes. They are friends with the entire population of their grade level making them "popular". When for us at that age we may have had maybe 3 friends. It's just a fact that younger siblings have the greater advantage when it comes to social interactions.
At age 13 and 14 we are not grown into our bodies, nothing can be put on a 14 year old's body to make them appealing, it just doesn't happen. But for some reason this generation wants to look "cooler" so they wear clothes that the stereotypical older cooler teenager wears. But they don't look cool. And when they move their hips to pretend they have a butt they just look snobby. But to their group of friends they are cool and the other kids their age for some unknown reason thinks they are cool to. They gain status at their age now and it continues to follow though as they grow up.
When they first start into a lot of social interaction they have a scrips to act off of. They watch us, the older siblings, to see how we talk and act in a certain situation. If there is a good response from others then they will mimic what we did to also get a good response. If we get ignored or made fun of for what we said then they will try the complete opposite response to try to get a better response. In a way they gain a higher status then what we have. We are their script when for us we created the script and had to do things the hard way.
Kids their age think the more friends you have the better. But that's only because they haven't gotten burned yet. With time they will learn that its not the quantity of people but the quality. To live happily the opinions of others do not matter, being yourself and being accepted makes you happy. So be close with the people you can be yourself around. They get their "popularity" by being friends with the most people and the coolest people. So it's all an illusion that they are ahead of where we were at their age.
As older siblings we feel protective. "If anyone is going to be mean to them it's gonna be me" but we don't really mean that. We may fight but in the end we still love each other. If anyone is messing with them we immediately step in. We will always protect them the best we can. They are mini us's and we can't let our mini down.
Depending on your relationship with your sibling you guys may be close or you may fight a lot. But no matter what they always look up to you.Copying is a sort of flattery and they only wanna be as amazing as you are. In a way yes they do have the advantage, but in another way so do we.
