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[fredatemespleen]

my little brother isn't usually one of those crazy annoying "I'm not touching youuu" little siblings, most of the time he's pretty mellow. Just sometimes, he goes crazy on me. I have a lot of patience with kids so he doesn't get on my nerves as much as he does to my sister, but today he's just been terrible. He always does this whenever i try to do stuff for him. He woke me up this morning at 6 asking me to play operation with him. I felt bad, so i got up and played it with him then i made him breakfast and we played video games after then went outside to play with chalk. So everything was going fine and we start to make stuff with clay. Its not like play-doh, its expensive art clay that you can bake and stuff. so anyways, we're playing with it and i'm helping him make a T-rex and I'm making a Pterodactyl and trees so that we can make a little scene thingy. So anyways, I'm done with all my stuff and he starts complaining about how his T-rex isn't as good as my Pterodactyl and I help him make it a little smoother and while i'm finished with that and i look up, he's mashing all my thingys. Of course i yell at him and he just laughs and i end up smacking him. Which makes him cry and run to my mom for sympathy. I then get yelled at cause I "overreacted" and I'm "grounded" which doesn't really mean anything cause the parents still let me do whatever.
Now i have a huge ball of crap brown swirl clay that i have no idea what to do with.

and now he's throwing stuff at me and giggling and mumbling "dianas stupid" and stuff like that just getting on my nerves. aslkjdflkajf


I just want to know, after everything i did for him today and after what he did, do you think I overreacted?

oh yea, he's eight so he should know better than to do that, right?!

[Butterflyphoenix]

parents are most of the time gon take the childs side cuz your older and "should know better".

Agreed. Trust me. I experiance that almost everyday. Wheneber I tell my little brother not to do something that's going to get him into trouble my mum is always saying, "Don't tell him what not to do!" or "Don't yell at him!" (Even though I'm just using my normal tone.)

If anything, you didn't overreact. I mean, that's what it means to be siblings, you're going to have moments when you'll fight or disagree with one another. But unfortunately, either parents just don't understand or they just forgot what it's like to be constantly taking care of a younger sibling and you start losinhg patience.

Just keep in mind next time, that don't physically abuse him just kind of joke around and say, "Hey, that wasn't very nice!" Or something similiar to that. Try to say it in a nice way so he understands that he can't be playing like that. You can be a lil bit strict, but don't like scold him.