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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sibling is four plus years younger than I am, and we were five years apart in school.  We were close as younger kids, and then the school gap put us into really different life stages; I had a masters degree before my brother was out of high school.  The life stage difference has persisted into adulthood for us, and we didn't have the closeness as kids to fall back on.  We are also an older sister/younger brother family, and now I have a 20-year-old and teenager, and my brother has toddlers.  We both wish we had been closer in age and able to go to the same schools as the same times.[/quote]

This. My sister is four years younger and we were not that close growing up. We were five grades apart. Now that she has kids we have more in common, but our relationship is still more my giving advice and her asking questions. One of the nice things about having a closer in age sibling is you are more like peers and can do activities together, etc. My kids are spaced two years apart and my oldest and middle can do things together as well as my youngest and middle, but never my oldest and youngest. In school, an older sibling can also really help socially but usually this is only the case if they are in middle of high school with you, so would not apply with a 4/4.5 year gap. My oldest and youngest do kind of play together, but it’s pretty one sided at this point: it’s not like my oldest and middle or middle and youngest. And my youngest would not be my oldest’s choice playmate obviously. It’s not personal, you just don’t get many 8 year olds who want to play with 4 year olds. [/quote]

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