Personal Narrative: Stubbornness And Sibling Fights In My Family

Stubbornness & Sibling Fights
Though there are many contributions to fights between siblings, in my family stubbornness is the greatest factor. Whether you are right or wrong doesn’t matter. However as my sisters and I have grown older we have grown more or less out of the habit unless we know we are right. If we find out we aren’t we usually back down and say that we are sorry or that we understand the other person’s side. My brother however, still is considerably young and hasn’t grown out of his stubbornness.
There are plenty of times when I would get in a fight with my siblings, and realize I was wrong; but I would continue anyways because of sheer stubbornness. It’s not so much if you’re right or wrong, but to see who will back down first. That is, until I realized how silly it actually was. But I am not the only one in the family who would do this, at one time or another all of my siblings have done it. I’ve realized though, that it …show more content…
My mom had said before we started to clean the fridge that he was not allowed to clean with bleach. I knew she meant he could not clean with it, but I also knew she did not mean that he was not allowed to be around it. But there would not have been a problem if all of the counter space was not being used. Because it was, only the oven was open for placing part of the refrigerator. I could not finish cleaning it where it was in the fridge, so I obviously had to move it. With no room for it anywhere else, I tried sitting it on the oven. However my brother said sitting it precariously on a smaller object would suffice. The smaller object was unstable and smaller than the glass; it could easily fall and break if it was bumped. Knowing my mom, I know it wouldn’t suffice. I knew my mother would not approve but he insisted that he was not allowed to be around