I’m 15 years old and all my life I have hated being an only child. I only had time to skim through a couple of your stories in the research section and the first two I read definitely stood out to me. People always think I’m spoiled, but it’s not true at all and I often envy other people with siblings. I think one time I was at the grocery store and I saw these two siblings fighting over something. It was so cute how the little girl admired her brother so much and wanted to be just like him but at the same time was so mad at him for pushing her. The next time I looked over she was holding his hand and he was pushing her away out of “embarrassment”. I think I almost started crying right there and I’m not a very emotional person. I knew [...]
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Being an only child, taught me, that one day when I got married I never wanted just one child, because I did not want them to go through what I went through, even though it sounds lovely, it was a very lonely and solitary existence at times. I was lucky in many ways, but feel that in other ways you miss out so much. I never learnt from brothers or sisters who had children, the experiences of looking after babies, I never changed a nappy until I had my own children, I had never looked after a baby and did not have a clue, until I had my own. I never had cousins to play with or aunties or uncles popping in or baby sitting. In a way it was harder being an only child who wanted for nothing, than being in a larger family, learning about life, and how [...]
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