siblings
i've been thinking recently about how weird it is that people have siblings that you don't really know about. and its weird how people relate to their siblings differently, especially oldest siblings. i have to admit, given my situation, that i have an overly active parenting relationship with my siblings. i do the homework help, the calls to teachers, the breakfasts before school, the laundry and the heart to hearts when i'm home. and i don't do it because anyone makes me, i do it because they are my family and thats what family does. for the most part I feel like a lot of people have a variation on that form. either their siblings are close enough in age to them that they look out for them like friends, or they keep an eye on them like i do with my siblings, calling them on their bullshit and making sure they aren't being too retarded. but then there are the people who for some reason feel no responsiblity towards their younger siblings. whatever the reason they feel like because they didnt bring the kid into the world, or because they hate their parents, or because they are just so selfish that they only care about themselves. people like that carry that kind of attitude all over their life I feel like. its sort of like how people tell you to look how a guy treats his mom, you should also look how he treats his siblings. last night was kind of indicitive of that, since for the most part everyone who came over with kevin has siblings, they were all really understanding and apologetic that they were being loud while kristyn was trying to get justin to sleep. probably more so than kevin was. birth order does have a lot to do with what kind of person you are and how you act in those kind of situations, except for kristyn and kevin because kristyn always acts like the oldest sibling, so much so i forget that she isn't. time to go watch my little brother play soccer! breeze.