Blog 36 - Personal and Hypthetical

My topic is about how sometimes when both parents are busy, or if a child is raised by a single parents, they oftentimes bring themselves up. They become very independent because they raise themselves. Then, after they go through raising themselves, if they have a younger sibling, they raise the sibling too. After the hardship they had gone through they feel it is their duty to help their sibling. A personal anecdote to this is that when I was younger, in like 6th grade, one of my friends was a lot like this. She lived down the street from me, and she was pretty much my best friend at the time. Her mom and dad both worked at GE and worked full hours, whereas my mom worked shorter hours and came home around the time we were back from school. She was extremely independent which wasn't surprising because her parents had been like this for a long time. Then, she had her younger brother and she practically brought him up. She picked him up from his bus, made sure he ate, tutored him, took him places, she did everything for him and I would always remember my mother being like, if only you did half that stuff for your younger sister. Me and my sister were just like, most of the time friends who fought sometimes, there was no responsibility I ever had for my sister. So it was always weird to me. A hypothetical situation would be if I was in that position. Lets say I had parents that worked full time, and I had two younger siblings. I can't even fathom what my life would be like. I already felt like I had little time in highschool, now throw in two kids I have responsibility for, that would be unimaginable.