Is it hard to be a little sister?
By beaushell
@beaushell (339)
Philippines
July 29, 2009 3:32am CST
I'm the youngest out of seven siblings in the family. Growing up I had so many privileges, the best part in a chicken, the easiest chore in the house, the attention of my parents and many more to mention. And yet there are also the setbacks, I was not consulted in many family conferences. Many things happening at home are not even called to my attention. I'm always the last to know about problems in the family. And I have the least influence when it comes to decision making. My parents expect me to shut up more than to air my opinions on difference matter.
Now as an adult, life has not been the same.
My older sisters and brother need help in different ways. And they no longer see me as a little girl but oftentimes as someone who can do things that they need in many forms. Oftentimes they also asked me about my opinion on topics that on some occasion are even personal in nature.
I realized that people will hear me, even my siblings if I will show myself responsible and mature in my choices in life.
2 responses
@bubuth (1815)
• Philippines
8 Feb 12
I am next to the eldest,but i also understand what you feel,we also do the same in my little sister because we think she is not mature enough to face the problem of the family but when she grow up we allow her to help us in all things. We just make sure that the task that we will give to her is the task that she can finish and accomplish very well.
@angeleyes2217 (85)
• United States
23 Mar 10
I am the youngest out of three siblings. When I was young I was daddy's little girl so I got my way all the time. My older sister would ask for a ride to a friends house and my dad would say not right now. Not even 5 minutes later I would ask the same question and my dad dropped everything that he was doing to take me to my friends. In my situation it was more harder on my sister and brother when we were young. They always got into trouble so my dad would play favorites. Being the youngest I was the one that got the attention from him all the time. Now that we are older its harder to be the youngest because the family are expecting me to learn from their mistakes and do much better than they did. I was the only one that graduated from high school and made an effort to go and stay in college. Since how they still mess up from time to time I feel like the older sister and them being the younger siblings. It is stressful at time being the youngest but I wouldn't change it for anything. It does have its ups and downs but there are times where I would rather be younger than in their situation.
