Being a baby sitter to your own siblings is probably one of the most difficult things you'll do as a teenager... if not for your entire life! There are certain draw-backs to babysitting people who know you so well!
First of all: since they have known you their entire life, they do not respect you as they would a non-relation! Ever since I was a child I noticed a certain respect younger children have for teenagers... The only way I can explain it is that they know that teens are still not adults, yet they have obtained (to a certain degree) a level of adult hood that evades younger children! A child can see that air about a teen that seems to say,"I'm mature and able to take on the world!" Siblings, however, are a WHOLE other ball game! Because they have known you for so long, they have become desensitised to that quality. They know exactly what buttons to push, what they can get away with, how to break down your defenses and use your personal weaknesses to their advantage! They have been with you throughout your problems, difficulties, hardships, mistakes, and so on! As soon as you try to discipline them, they pull out those advantages and reduce you from a babysitter to a child again!
Second- Even when you are no longer babysitting them you have the urge to get into the 'baby sitter' mode! The line between sister and baby sitter is very often fuzzy and indistinct! While your their baby sitter they tell you that you ought to be a better sister by being more lenient... And while you aren't babysitting them you feel like you have to make sure they are doing what they are told and such!
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