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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Middle kid here. I'm not saying you should make them go to this specific concert, but you should make them go to his stuff. I went to tons of events to see my older and younger siblings perform or play when I was a kid, but as a middled child this was very much not reciprocated. By the time I was in activities, my older sister was deemed too old to be forced to attend. Sometimes she had school stuff or her own activities, but often she just didn't want to and was out with friends. And my younger brother was deemed too young, blah blah blah he'd find it boring. Yet this theory did not seem to apply when I spent much of elementary school going to my sister's basketball games and doing homework sitting on the bleachers.

When I was a kid, I would have told you I didn't care either way. But as an adult, when I look back on my childhood, it really does feel like I was kind of invisible and overlooked. I remember at holiday meal several years ago, one of my nieces was talking about going out for track and field and I was encouraging her and telling her how much I got out of doing it, and relating this story about how I wanted to be a sprinter but they made me do distance running and while I hated it initially, I discovered I actually loved it and still run. My siblings and my dad were extremely confused because they didn't even remember that I'd run track. I did it for 5 years! It's stuff like that [b]which is disappointing and sad to me. I think my parents could have done a better job of making sure all their kids supported each other. I'm not close to my siblings and this is very much part of the reason why.[/b][/quote]

+1. This has happened to me several times. [/quote]

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