Positive experiences with 6 year age gap?

[Anonymous]

Studies say sibling relationships depend on the personality of the older child rather than on the age gap.

My kids are 5.5 years apart and adore each other. I also feel that it gave me time to enjoy their babyhoods.

I am 10 years older than my sibling, and we may not be peers, but we have always been close. My husband had traveled extensively when our youngest was born, and my sibling came to help - drove older DC to school, played, and cooked dinner.

[Anonymous]

I'm 6 years younger than my sister and we're quite close. She taught me to ride a bike (my Dad tried but my sister understood better what was scaring me).

[Anonymous]

My favorite sibling is 6 years older (we are great friends now but we fought like cats and dogs until they left for college). my second favorite is 8 years younger. Not crazy about the other two siblings, tbh.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because of secondary infertility, we're going to have a 6.5 year age gap. I'm so worried that they'll be like my half sister and me (13 years apart). She's more like my aunt than a sibling. My daughter is so, so excited to be a big sister but I'm nervous that the different life stages will prevent them from being close friends.

My sister is six years older and hated me from the moment I was brought into the house. She used to beat the daylights out of me until one day I turned on her and hit back. We have no relationship at all. You may have a different outcome. I can tell you that she resented having to help with me--even bringing a diaper, so do not make older child your free helper/babysitter.

OP clearly asked for positive experiences.

You don't always get what you want. Now she is prepared for a negative outcome.

My cousins are two years apart, and the younger (boy) has always been big and regularly beat up his sister. She has always been more intelligent and more social than him, and their parents made her help him academically and socially. She started avoiding him during her teenage years, and they rarely speak as adults.