Thoughts On: Differences between Elder Siblings and Younger Siblings

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So, today we have a very interesting topic. Elder siblings and younger siblings.

Most Indian kids have at least one sibling- everyone in my friend group does. And I can’t help but notice significant things that are common between everyone who’s an elder sibling and everyone’s who’s a younger sibling. Let’s get into it!

*Hopes a sibling war doesn’t start in the comments, although she wouldn’t mind witnessing it :p)

1. Maturity:

Honestly, to some extent, I feel like elder siblings mature faster. As much as I may deny it in real life, my sister was probably more mature when she was my age. Parents do tend to count on the elder sibling more than the younger ones, which leads to us being a tad more immature than the elder ones. Elder siblings do tend to be slightly more responsible.

2. Parental

For some reason, elder siblings consider themselves to be our third parent. Why? No one knows. They’ll sneak around on our stuff, and whenever they find something, they’ll go ahead and scold us themselves or they’ll rat us out to our parents who will in turn scold us. And then they wonder why we don’t tell them stuff. This is also the reason the younger siblings gets scolded so much more than the elder ones. It’s like parents have all this experience now, and they’re like- WE MUST USE IT.

3. Sneaky and Secretive

For this, I’ll have to say- the younger sibling is more sneaky and secretive. There is this guy in my grade, and both of us were discussing our respective elder siblings, and both of us were like, because of them we have to tiptoe around, and well, have trust issues, since neither of us tell our friends a lot of stuff either. What’s more, the number of times we have covered up for our siblings is 100000 and the number of times they’ve covered up for us is negative 1000000 (since they’ve ratted us out)
I have to say younger siblings sneak out more too. Re: The maturity point, parents tend to think that younger siblings can’t handle themselves, hence we aren’t allowed to go out. The alternative? Sneaking out, of course!

4. Distant

I believe the elder sibling is in general, closer to both parents, and is fine with staying at home their entire lives. On the other hand, younger siblings tend to get out of the house at the first chance they get. It’s not that they don’t love their parents, I just think it’s that they don’t fit in with their family as well as the elder siblings do? Just my opinion, honestly.

5. Compromising

I feel like younger siblings are more compromising as compared to elder ones, especially when there’s a huge age gap. Since we were kids, we were supposed to stay at home when our siblings had exams and couldn’t have our friends over either. Elder siblings also get the better room, and stuff like that. But that’s actually sort of okay with us, because we understand. You see, ultimately younger siblings are simply ✨better✨.

These were all simply my opinions and observations, obviously they might be true for some and untrue for some! I hope you enjoyed this post! Let me know in the comments if you agree with these points or not, and if you’re an elder sibling or not!

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