7 Things Every Older Sibling Knows To Be True

They say your life forever changes the moment you become a parent.

But and there's a big but, these same people forget to mention how your life also changes forever?the moment you become the older sibling.?

Being the oldest child in a family can sound like a pretty good gig in theory: you're given a or more younger siblings you can boss around whenever you want, you can play the seniority card as to get your way around and you can boast about how you had a few years exclusively with your parents. But in reality, all of us older siblings?know that there are days we absolutely love our little siblings and on other we are praying there was another sibling elder to us.?

In order to celebrate being older siblings, here are things we bet you know are absolutely true.?

1. Your parents were much more strict with you than they ever were with your siblings.?

I have always said this one thing to my parents that my sister magically gets away with things that I as the older child would have been murdered for. As the oldest kid, you were the guinea pig by default. Your parents were learning how to parent with you. So you have literally witnessed the evolution of how your parents strictness just fades away when it comes to the young child in the house. Justice will never be restored.

2. You got used to the feeling of being followed around UNTIL they became to cool for you.?

My younger sibling as a child would want to come with me everywhere. Whenever I would go to the park or any birthday party, my sister would beg to come with me and cry until I would take her. But as she grew older, I became uncool for her and now she spends all her time with her friends.?

3.? Older siblings are always kind of pissed off.?

Why you dare ask? Because we became parents of children we din't make. So yeah, we're very angry.

4.?You're always struggling between being the "cool" older sibling or the "responsible" parental figure.?

As the oldest, it can be really tough to find the balance between acting like the "cool" big sis/bro and the responsible one. You want to be fun and exciting, but you also want them to depend on you. So should you let them party out all night or set a curfew for them to come home? Should you tell her not to date or let her have a boyfriend? Answers I really don't have.

5. One thing you really hope for them is they?find their passions in this world and go after them no matter what.

They can be annoying. They can piss you off like nobody else. But in the end, they are your little baby. Most older siblings really hope and pray that their younger sibling finds something they are absolutely passionate about and go rule the world. Something we all older siblings do but never tell the younger ones enough.?

6. You are super protective of them.?

Only an older sibling knows the intense protective feeling you have over this person you fight with every single day. It's a feeling that is sacred among us older siblings and that's how it will always be.

7. No matter what, you will love them with all your heart.?

It doesn't matter if they get on your nerves, don't speak to you for days or wear all your clothes, one's thing is for sure; you will never stop loving them and will do everything in your power to make this world a better place for them.?