Personal Narrative: Life With Four Brothers

Life with Four Brothers In the Eldridge household, there are five children. I am the oldest of those children. I am also the only girl, because there is only one other option of gender (not counting the ones society tries to push on us, none of my siblings think they are cats or anything of that nature) this means all my siblings are boys. This also means I am one of two girls in the entire house. Having a two to five ratio of girls to boys the house gets a little hectic, and when I say gets a little hectic what I really mean is it’s a straight up mad house twenty-four seven. The sibling break down is Lydia (that’s me!) eighteen years old, Ross sixteen years old, Mark fourteen years old, Justice (and yes, I meant to wright Justice, it’s not a typo for Justin) ten years old, and Clayton eight years old. We were fairly consistent with the two-year age gap, except between Mark and Justice. That wider age gap between Mark and Justice creates an obvious divide among the siblings. We call Me Ross and Mark the older kids and Justice and Clayton are the little kids. This also, for the most part, dictates who hangs out with who, Justice and Clayton hang out together and Ross and Mark hang out …show more content…
The symptoms of this are quite easy to recognize and are very commonly found as the name would suggest in the youngest child of a family. Children with Y.C.S. think that rules do not apply to them, they try to get away with things that any older siblings would never have been able to do without the all might wrath of mom and dad coming down on us. They also live under the illusion that they can get out of doing work that was assigned for the house as a whole to accomplish. This obviously enrages us older siblings as we get stuck doing work that should have been theirs to do. To make this long story short, he’s mom’s little baby and thinks he can do anything he wants as long as he looks cute and fake cry’s about