Did You Help Raise Your Siblings?

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I began babysitting my three younger siblings when I was eight years old. At that time, one sister was four and a half or five, my youngest sister was three, and my brother was one and still in diapers. My youngest sister was a handful at that age because she was very active and very determined to be in charge. When she was about four when we were at the Grand Canyon, she decided that she was going to lead the way down the path and kept saying that she was the "weader" because she couldn't pronounce leader yet. Anyway, I took care of them a lot because Mom and Dad were out at functions or out of town a lot and even though we had an adult stay with us when they were out of town, my siblings tended to turn toward me because they felt safer. It's funny, but we fought a lot as kids but we all get along now. I'd like to think that I had a little something to do with that.