Shoutout to all the oldest children who had to watch their parents buy things for younger siblings you could never have, let them do things you could never do, and get away with shit you’d have been killed for.
There will come a time, probably in your twenties, when you will realize, wow my parents were my age when they had me, no wonder they fucked up. Then you will think my parents were completely different people by the time they had my siblings.
But it’s still gonna suck sometimes, but you’re going to live through it. Your younger siblings probably won’t know how to do shit for themselves, so you can feel superior in that regard.
Cheers to you, oldest child.
I have a real issue with anyone trying to protect children from their own imaginations. If we cannot acknowledge that a lot of us have a bit of darkness within ourselves, some more than others perhaps, and bring it into the light and examine it and talk about this part of the human condition, then I think we will be living in quite a dangerous climate. I think that’s much more damaging for children.
J.K. Rowling on parents that forbid their children from reading Harry Potter (or any fantasy novel that they vaguely disagree with)