Being the Oldest Child in my Family is Practically Impossible!

Being the Oldest Child in my Family is Practically Impossible!

By Edward Chen, critic on families

Being the oldest child in my family is definitely not a piece of cake. I get blamed for everything, my parents always treat the other one better than me, and, the most important one, if I’m proved guilty for doing something wrong, or even sometimes my brother lies about it, then I get a BIG punishment, whereas my brother always gets off easy, even when he DOES get in trouble. Here are my  reasons:

My first reason is that I always get blamed for every single thing I do. An example of this is that one time I was on my computer and I wasn’t supposed to, my mom said “Edward! You know that you’re not supposed to do that!” while my brother was watching with me and he got off SCOT-FREE!! It’s so not fair. Another time I was on my Xbox and my brother was playing with me, and then my mom came into the room. And then my brother screamed “Edward started it!” and again, I got grounded for a week, and he got off SCOT-FREE again! This happens all the time; another example was when I was sick and my brother is not, when he gets back from his activities he always is suspicious that I was playing on my laptop, even if I want to do it for school purposes. For him, if he turns it on and it’s in sleep mode, and then after he turns it on there is a YouTube tab open in Google or Edge, that is proof for him that I was watching.

Another reason is that I feel that my parents are always treating my brother better than me. I think this because whenever he doesn’t know something that he should, they always talk to him in a soothing voice, but when that happens to me, everything is shout after shout after shout. It’s not fair at all. Also, I feel like I have no influence over my parents. I’m always like “Mom, I don’t want to do this,” and my mom is like “Well we’re signing you up anyways,” while my brother gets to pick and choose almost whatever he wants! Like yesterday, I told my mom I didn’t want to go to Chinese school, and she said no. But then my brother came along and Mom said “Alex, do you want to go to Chinese school?” And obviously, since we both hate it, he automatically said “NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NOOOOO!!!” And of course he gets out of doing it, while I still have to do the thing that I hate, aka Chinese school. Again, it’s not fair.

Although I think being the oldest child in my family is incredibly hard because that I get blamed for everything and that my parents are always treating my brother better, I mainly think that it is insanely close to impossible because that even when he does get in trouble, it’s always an easy punishment compared to mine. He just gets banned from video games for example, and 99.999999999999999% of the time he just screams his way out of it. I try to copy him, but my parents won’t budge. This happened another time when he didn’t do his homework. He was all like “It’s not my fault!!!” and again, screams out of it! This also happens very often. Another example of this is that when I hit him as a playful punch and then he hits me 9,999,999,999 times harder, I get in trouble and he just goes “EDWARD STARTED IT!!!!!!!” and gets off SCOT-FREE!! I think that that is just stupid. I mean, when people treat another person better, that’s not equal rights. And that is one of the amendments of the country.

To wrap this up, I conclude from this evidence that being the oldest child in my family is nearly impossible. I get blamed for everything, my parents basically treat my brother like he’s an angel (even though he’s not), and most of all, because he gets an easy punishment whenever he even actually gets a punishment in reality. So if you feel like me, then use these excuses to change your parents minds!!

6 Comments


  1. Good job Edward. You probably know this already, but I think your essay was great.

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  2. Hi Edward I really liked your article I also think that being the oldest child is hard. Bye!!!! Go PSG

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  3. hi edward i am the oldest child and it is super hard
    so i feel bad for you

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    1. Thanks! Same to you too

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