Family Should Be Best Friends

Before the first grade, we moved around a few times before ending up here in Sylvania. As a child, both my parents worked full time jobs and I was always at after school day cares or at my grandparents houses, never really got to spend a lot of time with friends or was able to socialize with many people. So growing up most of my time was spent with my brother and I thought nothing of it. As I grew up I began to realize that I had become stuck in some bad habits. My brother and I weren't asked to help around the house much but when we were we never listened. But to my surprise there were no consequences for our disobedience. At the time I thought I had it good. Around the time I got too middle school I began to realize the problem. I began

My family consists of my mom, dad, two sisters, and one brother. I am the youngest child of the family. With my siblings being a good deal older than me, I tended to feel left out when they got to do things that I didn’t. The age gap left me feeling like an outsider sometimes. As we grew older, the bond between us grew much, much stronger. I think of my siblings more like friends now. They are people that I can tell

One of the major themes in the novel, “Bud, Not Buddy” is the importance of family. This theme is represented in the novel through Bud’s journey to find his family. Throughout the story, Bud looks for his alleged father, Herman E Calloway, as he has no other family, and if he were to find his family, it would give him hope, as he would have been able to find somebody from the family he was born into. On page 86, readers can see how important finding family is to Bud, when the flyer with Herman E Calloway flies towards him, and Bud thought, “Maybe it came back to me because this Herman E Calloway really was my father.” This information gave Bud a newfound sense of hope, which shows how important family is to Bud, as with the absence of one, finding one has been so important in his life to the point in which even a small chance of him finding his family seemed like something that would be able to benefit him in the long term.

To begin, ten years separated my brother and I in age, so there's a good chance he did not enjoy me the way I adored him. I am sure I annoyed him. Especially when I always nagged him to play with me and invaded his space when he invited friends over. I could not help myself.  Moreover, my mom once told me that at the hospital when I was born, Brandon stormed out of the room crying because he did not want a baby sister. He could sense from the cry that I was a handful, and he wanted nothing to do with me.

Family plays an important role in every society. It is the main structure that made up a good society. Samovar, Porter & McDaniel (2015) write, “families are instrumental in teaching young people about their identities, how they fit into their culture, and where to find security” (p.73). Family is the first school in one’s life. In the early stages of our life, we learn how to eat, speak, communicate, and behave from our family, consciously and unconsciously we imitate our parents. In my religion (Islam) there is a great deal of attention to the importance of marriage and making family. Prophet Mohammad said, “The best of you is the best to his family and I am the best amongst you to my family”. Moreover, Islam assign a role to each member of the family, as parents take care of their children and the children should respect and obey their mother and father. I totally agree with Samovar, Porter & McDaniel (2015) when they mentioned that “the three most influential social organizations are (1) family, (2) state, and (3) religion” (p.70). For me, I believe that my family shapes most of my identity.

First, a little background on my family. I have two older brothers, the first born is 16 years older than me and the other is 14 years older. I also have a big sister who is 13 years older than me. Then came me. My mother had had a few pregnancies between us which caused the gap. When I was born, all my siblings were well into their teens. I was spoiled, treated like royalty even. My life was

Most people when looking for a friend would normally look to someone they met at school, or someone they work with, never a younger sibling, yet I have turned to my younger brother, Jackson, to be my best friend. Jackson and I are very similar and have always had a close relationship. Together we are partners in crime, fishing buddies, and there to push each other in wrestling. I often catch myself wondering, what would I do without him?

When my sister and I were in middle school, my perspective of my sister was horrible. I despised her and didn’t want to have anything to do with her due to her ignorant attitude. For example, when I was feeling depressed because my older cousins were ostracizing me, she didn’t notice and didn’t stand up for me. I felt angry at her and I saw her as an irresponsible bother that happened to have my bloodline. However, after we moved to South Pasadena, my perspective of her began to change. Because we moved into a new place full of strangers, we only had ourselves to relate to. I wasn’t very efficient in making new friends and I began to eat lunch by myself. My sister, realizing that I was alone like she was, began to pay attention to me and ate lunch with me. She was aware of my friends and people that didn’t like me, and she stayed with me when my cousins tried to leave me out on playing with them. My sister became my best friend and I realized that she was not a stranger that I should hold a grudge on but was someone that I could depend on when I was

To those without siblings, have you ever wished for another sibling? For those who don’t have siblings, have you ever considered that person to be like a brother or a sister to you? Any person that has had a sibling-like relationship can testify that a sibling is a pain you suffer through everyday of your life. Take Bianca from Taming of the Shrew. Her sister, Katherina, ties her up out of jealousy because she doesn’t have any suitors while Bianca is trying to decide amongst the three she has. While not all sibling relationships go to extremes like this, there are some that exist to this degree. In these scenarios, no matter the hardship, no matter the pain, whether or not you have a sibling, it will take time to learn to love the other person like a sibling. It may just be a matter of trying to understand the conflict or how the other person expresses themselves, but it’s always good to come to an understanding with each other.

In “Everyday Use” “Dee” was a very bratty and in college. My third oldest sister Nicole is in college. Nicole goes to school at USC Upstate,she used to be a brat when she was younger getting her way at all times. “Dee” left of to college and completely changed,Nicole was still the same she just had gotten a little more proper and mature. Maggie is shy and always home and so is Nicole. Nicole isn't very good with meeting new people she likes to lay in bed and or stay in her room. “Dee” is outgoing,Overdressed,bratty,and different from her family ,She’s very much like me. I leave home on the weekends and go do fun things with friends,I dress they way I feel , I hate to admit but I'm the bratty one I'm always getting my way,and I'm very different from my family. They listen to rap and old school hip-hop and RnB I listen to punk rock,rock,metal,pop alternative, and rarely hip-hop. Yet, Like Maggie Im the youngest.As for relationship between “Dee” and “Maggie” my sibling and I get along very well. Rarely me and my ten yr old brother Justin will fight and argue. In “Everyday Use” there are two sibling and they are sister in my family there are five ,Four girls (including myself) and one boy

In fact, our differences lead to unity in times of outer conflict. According to the article “Theoretical Perspectives on Sibling Relationships,” “as siblings mature, they become more responsible to the needs of one another” (Whiteman, Shawn D., Susan M. McHale, and Anna Soli). That is true for me and my sister. As we’ve grown older, we have learned to resolve our differences and focus on building our relationship as adults. We may be opposites in interests, but our polarity draws us closer together. Though our conversations still resemble those of Laura and Lizzie--“Lizzie with an open heart, Laura in an absent dream” (209-211)-- we now confide in one another with secrets that we would not dare tell anyone

A couple years ago I had a best friend, He was always by my side and was always protecting me. As we grew up we started getting apart from each other. Was it because we found something about each other and didn't want to tell one another, so we decided that going our own way would be the best. Our relationship got us together for a while we both had good things in common and that was what made us like siblings. Now that we have grown and know things about each other we still talk because we had that fear of rejection but we went through it and it came out to be a positive thing in our friendship.

The few times we did get to spend time together as a family, it wouldn’t feel like it. I knew all the relationships between my family members. I was the one who they told everything to but ask me not to tell anyone. This was a lot of weight on my shoulders because I began caring for everyone else’s relationships; especially my mom’s because my brother and sister would argue

I thought myself to respect all people even if i didn't like them but still had aspect them and saw everyone as equal to each other and not have one dominant the other. What i am saying  I know how it feels to have more limitation based on who you are. I know where they’re coming from. But overall having siblings had made more laughter, more learning opportunities and learning from their mistakes, and most all forever lasting friendship. I am very thankful to have family and friends to encourage me in my goals on what I want do and who I want to become.

The family unit across the globe is valued by almost all cultures as the most important social structure in which humans form the tightest bonds. Now significant evidence to suggest that within the family structure the relationship and interaction between siblings is the most impactful relationship of a human’s lifetime. Researchers have only recently become interested in the unique relationship between siblings. Siblings have been found to advance one another’s social, emotional, and cognitive development (Mcguire and Shanahan, 2010). Researchers are now are posing the question, “Are our relationships with our siblings the most important of all?”