On the pious occasion of Raksha Bandhan, we asked parents to tell us what do they have to say about ‘Sibling Studies’ and here are some interesting responses we got from them.

“‘Sibling studies’ is really an interesting topic for investigation. It is generally seen that if the eldest of them is good in studies, the younger ones are inspired for it. If the elder ones help and encourage younger siblings, they show a remarkable improvement. Siblings can come to mental level of each other, hence can help in better learning and understanding of things, they can give more clear examples, they can correlate the things more effectively. Even if they don’t help each other in studies, their own performance inspires and encourages the others to do well. Yes, parent should check that they should not be compared or feel jealous of each other.”
- Vibha Singh

“Sibling’s ofcourse have close watch over the benchmark for education set by either of them but that should never mean that they are not individuals. Everyone of them have their own plus points and some negatives. Therefore should not be judged by the set benchmark. It may be possible that the younger sibling may go a long way and the elder one stay back.”
- Tanushree Biswas

“Discipline is one thing, but I don’t believe that there is pressure on the elder sibling to be a role model or something like that. I am an elder sibling myself and I feel the pressure has always been on my younger sibling to match or outperform whatever I used to achieve…..be it in academics or otherwise.
Moreover, in today’s times, all kids are laden with enormous expectations that at the end of the day they R left competing with their own selves.”
- Samir Manchanda

“Elder child is subconsciously given the responsibility to bring up the younger child by setting a benchmark, but I agree to each one of you here that every child is an individual n should b given that space to take his or her own decisions in life, we should not set the rules of the game for the younger one like wise. Elder one she not be told every time to watch their actions cause younger one’s may follow them. Discipline is one important thing but as parents we should give space to every child to grow individually. I have 2 daughters, but behaviour wise both are poles apart. One is absolutely shy feminish kinds, she is 17 plus, she is like this from always, but the younger one is just a tom boy. She is 12 now. The discipline, the rules, the upbringing was same, but what matters is individuality. Give them breathing space. Let them live this world the way thy want. Yes as parents we much watch that they should not do anything wrong in life.”
- Neha Jairath