Worst Things About Being the Oldest Sibling
Being the oldest sibling is HORRIBLE. If you are not the oldest, you'll see why. If you are the oldest, you will understand.The Top Ten
My sister gets to watch stuff at her age before I ever could. Although it doesn't bother me that much, I just needed something to write
PLEASE READ THIS! I am scrolling down reading the commits, and man these things are true! I am so zo so sorry if you have a bratty or mean sibling. I am feel even more sorry for you if your parents are picking favorites. My younger sister is bratty sometimes but not as bad is what I am seeing here! Again I am sooo sorry and wish I could help you, but here is my advice: tell your parents if they are picking favorites or acting unfair in those kinds of way. That is NOT teaching you to not pick on your sibling
( which you aren't) that is emotional abuse. I AM so SORRY AND PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE. Try not to commit suicide and know that there is nothing wrong with you. Lots of love and hope you are doing alright! I will pray for you.
It's true! My sister is five and she knows she can do whatever she wants to me because she's four. Like for example, I'm playing on my tablet, and she runs in, snatched it out of my hand, and runs to mom. When I go to get it she says "MOMMY! HE WONT SHARE! " so I have to let her use it. But if I try to play with her she won't let me. And then dad tells at me because I supposedly, "don't share." When he is RIGHT THERE, IN THE ROOM WITH US! And if my parents tell her to give my tablet back, she fake cries (obvious to me, not to my parents) until she gets her way.
Ugh, my little sister is SO ANNOYING FOR THIS! I also have a little brother, but we're only a year apart so...anyways, back to my sister. I was playing Mario Kart one time with her, and I kept winning. Then she runs upstairs and pretends to cry and says "Mommy! My sister won't let me win at Mario Kart and that hurts my feelings! " And of course, I get in trouble.
I bet if my parents were inventors, and they needed a test assistant, that would be me. It's always me.
"Well Jane, we just figured out CYANDIDE is poisonous! We’re very grateful to know the obvious! Although our oldest child died,we only care about the youngest! ”
I don't see a big deal out of these. I'm the oldest sibling but I don't give a crap.
I love my parents and all, but I hate it whenever it seems like they put more pressure on me in terms of growing up and going to college more than my sister, who is 10 months younger than me.
This means that you get micromanaged, but your sibling doesn't when he/she gets to your age
My mom is RIDICULOUSLY overprotective of me. My sister is 20 and they allowed her to go places unsupervised SINCE SHE WAS LIKE 16. I am 26 and I AM STILL NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE HOUSE UNSUPERVISED.
I have my own room, but my little sister barges in every day for 10 minutes to pick out clothes. If I go in her room, for bras, underwear, pajamas, or whatever she will scream! My grandma got me a doll when I was little, my sister saw it one day and took it, put it in her room, and officialy made it hers. If I go in her room and lay my hands on it, she screams, even though it's mine.
First off, I'm the second oldest sibling, but mentally the oldest. I guess I'm lucky I have my own room, but my FOUR siblings are constantly tossing their garbage in my room, and then lying about it. Also, my six year old brother kicks me in the stomach. Mom doesn't give a crap. I call him mean. Suddenly I'm the big stupid jerk. GOSH
I have to willingly let anyone else in my family use my things, even what I bought with my money. My brother gets to keep his stuff, and even OTHER PEOPLE'S STUFF to himself.
My dad constantly touches my stuff, sometimes WHILE HIS HANDS ARE WET. He never touches my sister's stuff.
If my brother smashes my tablet in front of my mom, I pay for it. If my mom breaks my tablet, I pay for it. If my brother puts his tablet on a drone, flies to 2,000 feet, then "accidentally" turns the drone off, my mom pays for the tablet, the drone, and damages from the explosion that will inevitably happen. If my brother throws a laptop at the T.V., and my mom sees it, I get to pay for it.
My sisters can break all my crap, and my mum pretends it never happened. If I make the smallest knick in something, I get to pay all the charges. It sucks. I get to pay for all my own crap too. Thanks, mum.
I also have to pay for living (eg.food) while my younger sister doesn’t. I am unemployed, and SHE HAS HER OWN JOB!
You have to share your toys (if you even have any), your phone/tablet/pc (that you bought with your money), your lego creations, your books, your halloween candy, even your BATTERIES!
I own nothing anymore because this is so true.
And your secret
My younger sister REFUSES to touch my stuff.
This is so true my little brother gets every exact thing on his wish list every single year. Part of this is because her birthday is on Christmas Eve and my parents say it makes him "special." I make a wish list with like at least 5 or 6 things (it used to be longer when I was younger) and I would get like 5 or 6 at the most depending on how expensive everything was but my brother would get like 8 at the least every year. I politely told my parents about how I felt (it was on Christmas) and my dad yelled at me in another room telling me that Christmas is THE WRONG DAY TO BE COMPLAINING! I said that in caps because he was screaming at the top of his lungs. I wish I could be like my little brother
My brother got like a $60 present and it was BeyBlades and absolutely useless except for playing and guess what I got? An umbrella... that I needed so I didn't get wet when I walked to and from school... and it was like $20. Guess what I get for a christmas present... A THERMOS FOR LUNCH.
Once my younger sister got a new phone for Christmas but when I asked for an Apple T.V. or an Apple Watch I was denied those and got clothes instead.
My oldest sister always buys christmas presents for my younger siblings, I'm the 2nd oldest and she doesn't get me anything.
I remember this from my own childhood and now see and hear it happening in other families as well. I'm the oldest child and have a brother. Whenever you attacked your sibling, self-defense or not, you were committing a crime against humanity, according to your parents and other adults. If younger sibling did it, that was only cute and adults thought the older child, you, probably deserved it, too. When my brother and I were little children, our mother asked us why we always fought. My brother said it was because I didn't obey him because he didn't obey me because he didn't want to, so technically it was his fault. However, our mother just laughed it off. I don't think her reaction would have been the same if the roles had been reversed.
I swear to god my sister has beaten the crap out of me more times than I than I can count, but the moment I kick her back, I'm sentenced to house-prison. Being the oldest sibling is downright miserable.
(My cousins bite me in the privates)
Me: MOM! my cousins just bit me on my butt!
Mom: It's OK they're just playing around
(My great-uncle grab my cousin's butt and privates playfully. I pick him up and carry him away)
Mom: PUT HIM DOWN RIGHT NOW! >:(
Me: But Mom, my great-uncle is being perverted and is groping him!
Mom: I don't care. Let him be. He was just joking around. And DO NOT call him a pervert again!
ARE YOU SERIOUS! >:(
Really true! Whenever my brother annoys me and I get angry at him my parents tell me that I'm always angry but when I annoy him they just yell at me for doing that. Damn
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I don't know about this... I have never heard a story about a younger sibling bullying the older one. There isn't even any reason for the younger one to do so, yet the holder has reason and power over the young one.
Exactly. This proves how no one believes it. Yet it is true. My brother bullied me, and never did my parents tell him off. I go to my room and shut the door, he comes in and I tell him to leave (politely) and parents are all over me
My younger siblings call me ugly, fat, stupid, dummy, etc... They don't realize that they are the stupid ones, they are hypocrites. I love how stupid my younger siblings are.
I don't see that as a problem, me and my sis get along sometimes, and I'm the one that tease her so I'm fine with this one.
My 19 year old sister bullies me whenever she gets mad
I feel bad for all the older siblings that have to go through this! I'm happy I have a decent brother and I am treated equally as him and don't have to be a good example for him. And the parents want YOU to be a good example for your bratty younger siblings yet they don't care when the younger sibling does something bad and blame the oldest for everything! If I had to go through all these problems, I would hate my life forever and wait for the day to move out! I feel sorry for all the older siblings who posted their stories about their horrible lives with their obnoxious, spoiled, and bratty younger siblings!
So true. I can't remember how many times I've been chewed out by my parents for not being the 'perfect role model'. If you want me to be the perfect role model, then you should have taught me when I was young mom
They tell me this all the time, I have two younger sisters. But who cares? I simply ignore this expectations from my parents and I care about my dreams. For example I want a pet, my parents don't allow me,but I get it and make them accept it
This is just wrong we older siblings have better things to do
Extended family gives your (younger) sibling more Christmas presents than you. Even if you're lucky enough to have parents who give you some "extra" packages to bridge the gap, some relatives come over on the day after Christmas and give your sibling some more gifts.
YES YES YES! My sister and cousins always gets stuff from extended relatives but I almost always get nothing. This is why I am greedy and constantly whine and beg to get things from everyone
I know I should be thankful, but what use is something that will break before I take it out of the package? Kind of like getting nothing at all...
I yelled at my little sis to get out of my room, and Mom yelled at me. Little sis then proceeds to go on a rant about how awful I am and how come I have friends because I'm so mean and Mom just sits and comforts her. THE HECK?!?!
My sister says stupid: mom and dad says nothing
I say stupid: mom and dad tells me not to say stupid
I get so pissed over this!
Your damn right ihave ayounger brother and its hell
In my case, it's pretty much ALL the chores, not the most. I'm 26 and I have to do chores but my sister is 19 and she is allowed to just sit there and be lazy
That's so me now.
Really true! I mean mine is horrible because of this reason
Seriously, my sister is almost nine, brother just turned ten, and my other bro is almost 13! And they still can't clean up after themselves, then I'm blamed for it and have to clean it up.
Uh hello? They're YOUR kids. You should be one the one looking after them. Us older siblings are not going to spend our lives cleaning up their messes.
I think it's there bloody fault they should be able n
My relatives come and visit us.
(to me) Hi
(to my cousins and sister) HI HOW ARE YOU HOW'S LIFE BLAH BLAH BLAH
No wonder I have no social life among my family :(
SO TRUE! This also applies to my younger cousins.
This exact thing happened when I was going to an amusement park with my best friend, my brother was asking her stupid ass questions and he was hitting her so I slapped him to get him to stop and my best friend laughed, it was so funny because of her!
Happens to me all the time...
I've been blamed thousands of times by my brother
Brother trips
Me: Are you ok?
Brother: MOM
Mom: what is it?
Brother: HE TRIPPED ME
Me: WHAT?
Mom: GO TO YOUR ROOM
Me: (inside) what WAS THAT
You see?
YES!
My cousins are PROFESSIONALS at getting me in trouble.
It's horrible
Brother: breaks glass
Me: what happened dude be careful
Brother: MOM!
Mom: OH NO MY WINDIW GO TO YOUR ROOM!
When she was in elementary school my sister would grab that she's "smarter" and "more awesome" than me because she's fully toilet trained by age 3 1/2 but I was still in diapers at that age. I'm 26 and she's 19.
They never succeed I'm way smarter then them. Also some of this stuff is not true (Yeah my mom favors one of them but everyone else likes me more
I'm smarter cause I'm older I mean but I'm still considered really smart
My brother does this
And when you do get mad you end up getting in trouble for it >:(
Some board games actually have a rule, "The youngest player's turn is first."
And on Christmas the oldest has to open their presents last
Me and little sis: (watching Parry Gripp)
Mom: "You batter not be showing her porn! "
Me: "Why in the heck would I do that?! "
Mom: "You have to be a good role model to Emily."
Me: "We're watching Parry Gripp! See for yourself! "
Mom: "I don't know what that is, and therefore, it is bad. Give me your iPad! You will be able to watch things with Emily when I think you are responsible enough."
How Is It that I'm the one being accused of watching rated R animes, when My brother sometimes watches intense cartoons like South Park? Pointless isn't It?
I always wanted an older sister...
Well thanks whoever posted this, you just made me cry
I always wanted an older sibling.
This may not be the most common (cousins, friends, etc.), but it's definitely one of the most influential.