family dynamics & sibling rivalries
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2022
- Sierra Schultzzie, Riayn Christina, and Paloma Malfavon chat about their childhoods, family dynamics, and siblings.
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Twenty Whatever features Sierra Schultzzie, Riayn Christina, and Paloma Malfavon talking candidly about navigating your 20's with your friends through different phases of life. (formerly Sierra Unfiltered)
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I loved this episode! But Sierra I’m dying at you saying Grace and Austin share 50% DNA 😂 an Uncle/Niece relationship shares about 25% DNA! 50% would be parent/child or full sibling relationships! (I’m a DNA person so sorry to nerd out 😂😅)
I thought that too! 😂
In love with the amount of times this derailed to HSM 😂
I’m a twin and I’m 5 minutes younger than my sister. One year for my bday I was very upset I had to share a bday party with my sister, so my dad’s side sang happy bday to my sister then waited 5 minutes before they sang for me. It just made me more upset seeing her get to eat cake before me, and I never complained again.
As an older sister to twins, that's one of the most twin things I've ever heard and I love it. Same thing happened at their 3rd but one cupcake was red and the other was green.
I’m HERE for all the HSM content 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 I seriously started talking to the tv like I was a part of this conversation! I kept saying like yeah, omg, etc. 😂
I hate to break it to you but, there is no way grace shares 50% of Austin's DNA unless
1)Austin is graces dad or
2)Austin and grace are full siblings
Either way it raises some questions
Or sierra and him are secretly identical twins!!👯♂️ lol but in all seriousness I think the idea was like 50% of grace’s DNA came from sierra and thus her parents so 50% of it was the same source as his
Twin mom here 🙃 my babies are 7 months old and I now exclusively pump and supplement with formula, however I did nurse for the first few months. It’s as difficult as you suspected 😅. Tandem nursing was so special but just not super enjoyable for me as you have to try to keep both babies latched at the same time. Bottle feeding just ended up being what was best for us but I have seen twin moms nurse and enjoy the process. I’ve enjoyed your first handful of episodes and look forward to tuning in for more! Wishing you all well 🤗
My parents were SUPER young when I was born, so I’m very independent and self sufficient. Then my siblings came along and I was pretty much parent number three. When I was younger I resented it, but now I love my siblings so much. It’s amazing to watch the grow up and get to make memories together.
As a mom of triplets I concur with Sierra’s sister in laws mom. You get through it because you don’t have a choice. It gets easier. And I just pumped all my milk and bottle fed them so that I could feed them at the same time. My triplets are 20 now and sometimes I think back at how crazy it was when they were little but it was so fun!
I love how you 3 always have different stories and experiences. I also love hearing Riayn's perspective, because I'm the much younger sibling! I was partly raised by my big sisters, and now we have a great relationship now that we're all moms. I also took care of their kids a lot growing up, which was so fun!
my brother and I haaated each other growing up, but now he's my best friend, lol. Our sense of humor and trains of thought are so in sync, it's hard to not laugh 24/7 when we're together hahaha. Loved this episode!
This was a great episode, because I have an older brother and we have the best relationship. Everyone who meets us is always like you get along so well. He was my best man at the wedding, which, traditionally is supposed to be a maid of honor and a girl but I was like there is no one on this here Earth who is more important to me to fill that role. So yeah, love my brother, always have, always will, can't imagine life without him.
My younger brothers and I played “Channel Surfing” ALL THE TIME. One of us got to be the person on the couch with the remote, and the other two had to act out scenes from various TV channels when the person with the remote changed the channel (weather report, American Idol, WWE, Discovery, etc.). Great times!
Ok so yall just reminded me that when HSM 3 came out on DVD my mom would not take me to blockbuster or Walmart that night to buy it immediately.I literally was on the verge of tears and had to take a walk outside to calm down because I was so distraught. So dramatic lol I was was prob a freshman in high-school at that time. 😅
The tangents on this one had me rollin’. Loved it and felt like I was just right in the room! ❤️
The sibling order always gets me because I have older, autistic twin brothers. So while I was technically the baby, I also had a leadership role over them. And like Sierra said, watching them as uncles makes our relationship so much stronger. They love my daughter so much ❤️
Pleaseeee do a 2000s nostalgia episode!
Yes, this 100%!!
I have to be out and about for work today and I’m so pumped I get to listen to this on my drive!
omg super long comment, sorry, i just had so much fun watching this episode lol.
i am lucky to have a little brother who is my best friend. we're 3.5 years apart and have honestly always been super close. growing up we never really had a phase where we didn't get along and i definitely made him act out plays with me that i wrote and we would play school all the time, with me being the teacher. also played a lot of video games together. when i got my driver's license i would drive us both to school every morning and we burnt playlists onto a CD (lol) and blasted it every morning and sang along together. 12 years later and we still talk about those mornings and have remade the playlists on spotify. to this day he's like my favorite person in the world and we talk about pretty much everything. we are both very very like-minded with our views & politics and are in a family who are all on the opposite side of the political spectrum, so we keep each other sane and feel less alone and he makes me so proud. i've definitely always wanted a little sister too though. i just feel like it's completely different.
omg i remember so vividly seeing just the HSM trailer for the first time and instantly falling in love with troy and hating gabriella a little because she got to be with him. was definitely a bit of an awakening for me.
my best friend's bday fell on the HSM 2 release, and i remember she threw a HSM themed party and it was an absolute blast.
did any of y'all go to the high school musical concert tour??? it was my first ever concert and it changed me. i have an old photo album with shitty blurry pictures of everyone performing during the concert. i was so upset zac efron wasn't there though (i think he was filming hairspray).
omg PLEEASE do a nostalgia episode. just throwing around some things: all-that, drake & josh, life with derek, the thirteenth year, lizzie mcguire, out of the box, kim possible, sister sister, ned's declassified, zoey 101, zenon girl of the 21st centurya, the cheetah girls, stuck in the suburbs, rocket power, wild thornberries, rugrats
Love these podcasts, they are so relatable as a late-twenty-something 🤣 also I love how all of your headphones match the set!! Just noticed haha
This episode, elite!!! Loved it!
Watching this when my oldest brother died a few months ago was probably not the best choice haha but cherish your siblings guys
So sorry ♥️
Please rewatch High School Musical like you did with Twilight!!
I have a five year age gap with my sibling and she was dealing with pretty severe mental illness growing up and it def affected our relationship. Even though I’m the younger one, I felt like the older sibling in so many ways. I love hearing about your happy stories and I’m making an effort to try to heal my sibling and I’s relationship now.
ALSO I’m so glad you love scream from HSM 3, it’s genuinely my favourite!!!
As a the baby of the family with two sisters over a decade older than me, Riayn's sister will definitely Cherish that moment forever. I'm 18 and my big sisters are still my best friends. I still remember them doing my make up, letting me try their coffee, or giving me their high heels so I could go on the scary rollercoasters (maybe unsafe, but fun). All those little things that made me feel like I was one of them even when they were in a totally different stage in life. Sometimes I'd get sad that we were so far apart but now that I'm older I'm really grateful. Them being so close in age definitely added tension, lots of fighting and competition, and I never had that with them.
When you were talking about the "makes me look weird" part in HSM3, it made me think of "The Boys are Back" in that movie and ohmygoodness that was a lot for my 11 year old self haha
hahaha relatable
I’m a middle child, but the eldest daughter and I literally call my 14 year old sister my “lil bestie.” I love watching her grow into her own person and seeing how she changes.
Also, my mom had 2 kids at my age and every time I remember that, I’m amazed at how she did it
PLEEEEEEASE do a hsm or dcom episode I’m loving this conversation lol
My sister and I are 4 years apart, and I would say that we definitely didn't become close until after she moved out for college. We were kind of close when we were really small, but once she hit middle school, she just didn't want anything to do with me anymore (coming from my perspective, of course). Then I had a similar experience to Sierra where she called me one day and asked if I wanted to come spend the night in her dorm (I was a freshman in high school, so like 14?) and I was so excited! We had pretty much spent the prior 7 years barely talking to each other and now she wants to hang out again? Awesome! Now we are 30 and 26 years old and have never been closer. She loves being an aunt to my 6 year old who is her little mini-me. I really cherish this time we get to have as two adults going through life together.
And Riayn gives me hope about having kids that are farther apart. My husband and I have officially started trying for baby #2 and I worry so much about how their sibling relationship is going to be with such a big age gap. But my daughter has been begging for a brother or sister, so I hope they can grow close!
Loooooveeeeee you guyssss. Love from Colombia ❤
The budget was ASTRONOMICAL on Scream alone
Me and my younger sister are 14 months apart as well. Both grew up as afab people. It was very hard I think for me as a kid because we shared a bedroom for 13 years, and pretty much forced to be together which made it harder for us to grow. After those 13 years one of my older sisters moved out and we both got our own bedrooms, we became so much closer. We got to grow and become our own people and now that we’ve been separated by a couple extra walls we’ve grown closer as people. I’m not in school anymore and they is in their senior year of high school so it’s fun to drive them to school, and they’ve given me so much good music to listen to and we play video games together now and it’s just so nice that we’re no longer at each other’s throats. I feel like all of my family relationships have grown, but with them and my dad are the 2 that I feel closest to.
I’m the oldest sibling of 4 (3 girls 1 boy) and nothing could’ve prepared me for how emotional watching my siblings grow up would make me!! My sister got married earlier this year and my brother just started college. It’s been such an emotional rollercoaster lol!
OMG RECOVERED memory!!! My first movie I watched on HBO was Lizzie McGuire movie and my grandpa literally got HBO for that only. Ugh so cute
Just wanted to jump in as a only child. My mom is an identical twin and I had b/g twins in May (30 seconds apart and both formula fed). They are my only children(we aren’t having anymore after a traumatic pregnancy and high risk of twins) and we just take it one day at a time but it has been a roller coaster.
I have two older sisters. One is 6 years older than me and the other is a year and a half older. The one closer in age has autism, which meant my parents spent a lot of time focusing on her and making sure she was okay, because of this, I've always felt like the middle child. The oldest has the oldest mentality; she would always boss us around and we listened. The middle acts more like the youngest; she was always the peacemaker but was also the one who got the most attention from our parents (again, not intentional, simply because she needed it the most). I was the "different one". I also unintentionally distinguished myself from my siblings. While they were social, I was antisocial, while they didn't enjoy school, I loved it, etc.
At a middle school dance, I found out my boyfriend was going to break up with me. So, I went up to him and quoted "Gotta go my own way" to break up with him first. 🙃
I know I’m late to the party, but twin mama here! I had an in medicated home birth with my boy/girl twins, so yes, it can be done! I’m so happy with my decision to do that, though I totally get why someone would want to go the medicated hospital route! My kiddos are two and a half hours apart! I tried doing the tandem breastfeeding thing and I wanted to love it, but it was a lot of work trying to keep them both latched at the same time. So now I exclusively pump for them and nurse for comfort here and there. They are my first kids, so it’s definitely a lot. My husband and I just take it one day at a time. I’m loving the podcast by the way! 💕
Im the oldest daughter of 3 siblings. My younger brother is 2 and a half years younger than me, and the youngest brother is 6 and a half years younger. I love both of them but im more close to the middle brother. We're besties and tell each other everything. The youngest loves me and would do anything for me, and he always listens to my advice for him. After i moved out, he ran to hug me when i visited.
I would absolutely watch y'all reacting to disney channel movies - save it for a lazy day!
My sister and I who are 2.5 yrs apart are super close now that we’re older but my other sis is 7yrs younger and we’re not close… I feel like 7 was too close and too far apart in age at the same time 🥲 what a gift I’m sure you are Riyan to your little sis! Loved this and soooo excited to see grace at Disney World lol
I actually laughed at loud at the “she was like na na na na” part 😂😂😂
I’m only 18 months older than my brother so we grew up super close, and then when he became a teenager he also started to pull away and stop interacting with me in a nice way, he was rude and mean and it wasn’t until I moved out at 19 that he started to come back. We had just started to become close friends again, and unfortunately he passed away in 2020 at age 22 so I never got to watch him really grow back into my buddy. I know he was on that path but it’s hard knowing what I’m missing out on. Also becoming an “only child” in your 20s is DIFFICULT. The shift in dynamic between my parents and I was shocking.
Me and my brother are seven years apart. My parents took me to the ultrasound on the day we were supposed to find out the babys gender. I remember sitting beside my mom and praying so hard that it’s going to be a girl and when the doctor said it was a boy i kid you not, stormed out of the office and started screaming “I don’t wanna play with cars and trucks. I want a sister so we can play together” 😅. And what do you know when he was three years old we would play together. I put my barbie dolls in his car toys and he was the driver. So it worked out much better than i thought 😂. Even today we love playing video games together. I love him so much.❤️
Omg only 15 minutes in and love this!!! My family dynamics were interesting because we were basically the Brady bunch dad had 3 older kids 15 and up my mom had 5 year old me, then they had my sister together. My first baby was a girl then I had son and now I’m having a third baby and it’s a girl and I’m SO excited!!!!
I’m 30 and just watched ALL the HSM movies VIA tiktok live with a group of people… it was better than I remember and so much fun to have other elders (😂) enjoy it as much as I did lol
Siblings and Disney memory unlocked: seeing Christy Carlson Romano as an older sister figure I never had
I honestly can't relate to any sibling dynamic mentioned here! My brother was so jealous when I was born (he was 2), and disliked me from that moment forward. He eventually had to move in with my dad because he couldn't stand me 😅 it doesn't help that I was undiagnosed autistic, so I probably seemed alien to him, but I've never understood how siblings can actually get along. We fought every day, had to go to different schools, and still to this day, we barely talk, and we're in our 30's.
my highschool didnt have theater, crazy how its different in different states/towns
My brother and I are 4 years apart and we are super close! Not too close in age where we compared ourselves to each other etc, but not so far apart that we aren't close or can't relate to each other.
I have almost 5 month old twins. And tandem feeding was TOUGH for me. I exclusively pump for them. They are the absolute best thing and hardest thing to happen to me. They just started interacting with each other and I’m 🥹🥹🥹
I’m a nanny for newborn twins right now, I love it as a nanny. But I see the impact it’s had on mom and dad! Luckily wasn’t their first kids, they have an almost 3 year old too. It’ll be interesting to see how they are when they grow up!
I have 2 sisters, and a brother and i'm the oldest of the 4. im 21, sisters are 19 and 17, and brother is 14, and we are all so close now as we're older and my brother is on the spectrum and he is still so close to us and cares about our opinions and he asks me for advice but also likes to come to our boyfriends and ask them about guy stuff and it's such a great dynamic for my family. I looooove the relationship i have with my siblings.
the fact that paloma didn’t want to be on the “dads side” but she has a brother is hilarious
i could not believe it HAHAHA
Also going on with the mom and dad side of the family. If you are a parent of a girl and they grow up you’ll be the mom side of the family (so Sierra you’ll be the mom side of the family for grace when she’s older) and if you have a son you’ll be the dad’s side of the family
I loved this podcast. I finally found a group of people who don't judge me for watching high school music 🤣. None of my friends would watch it.
Im the younger sibling of a 13 yr old gap with my sister and yes its VERY different than families with siblings close in age. Its like we were both “only children” for a LONG time. Because i practically started kindergarten when she went to college.
So here's my story, I have two brothers who are 10 and 12 years older than me, and for all intents and purposes I believe I was an only child most of the time. By the time I was starting school and learning how to have conversations with people they did not care about me at all so I never really had a relationship with them. Now however we all are adults and I can see how better we are getting along simply because now there's conversations to be had and it's been great the past year or so. We love each other very much.
Big bro - peacemaker from time to time, golden retriever energy
Middle bro - the genius, trouble child
Me - type A for everything, hates confrontation but will start one if pushed lmao
Speaking of Cadet Kelly, I would LOVE to see Christy Carlson Romano be a guest on the podcast!!!
There’s a 10 year age gap between me and my younger siblings. My 30 year old brother is the only one older and I am 28. The other ones are 18, 16, 15, and 13. Maybe it’s teenage years but it often feels like I’m “parenting” them. Thankfully, i think they feel more comfortable coming to me and talking to me rather than my mom which is perfectly fine with me. I’d rather them hear certain things from me rather than their friends at school.
Edit: omg, that comment about your siblings becoming uncles got me. I don’t know how my brother feels about watching me as an aunt, but my little brothers are always so sweet with our niece.
I'm so jealous of your sibling stories 😩 I'm not close to either of my brothers. I used to be with my middle brother cause he's 14months older but he moved in with dad after the divorce when I was 13 and I stayed with mom. My oldest bro is 6 years older and he used to practice wrestling moves using me. Being body slammed on your head with just a couch cushion to soften the blow still hurts. He also broke a door trying to beat me up cause I borrowed a DVD without asking. I legit could go on and on with the mean things they did.
I've never seen the 3rd HSM either and I just looked it up since I know I loved the first 2 - it came out in 2008. By that time my parents were already divorced and I didn't have cable. So its no surprise I didn't realize there was a 3rd one (plus I was 15).
You guys talking about how you’ve forgiven parents for not being perfect, is really making me think.. my dad was in his early 30’s. And he was so controlling and BEYOND a helicopter parent.
I’ve explained to him how poorly he handled my teen behaviors, but he always says that he just did the best he knew how… but his best was being verbally abusive, controlling everything I did, and kicking me out when I was 16.
Idk, I just feel like he had so many resources to be a good parent, but he was just too stubborn to get me the help I needed. I want to forgive and move on though! It’s just so hard when you’re untangling all of your trauma as an adult, and you think back on how you would’ve handled things differently..
Anyways, I’m just word vomiting! I really enjoyed listening to your conversations today!
I just want to say, I really relate to this. My parents were both in their mid-to-late 30s when they had me, and I have two younger siblings, the youngest being almost 5 years younger. I have had to go no-contact with both my parents, one when i went to college and one when i graduated college. It's so hard for me to even make any arguments to try to be "understanding" of their treatment because they weren't young or immature - they had watched all their friends have kids of their own and had been adults for 15-20 years at that point.
I'm glad to see that someone else totally has a different experience than what was discussed in the episode - it seems like Sierra, Riyan, and Paloma all have good relationships with their parents/siblings, and that was definitely not the case growing up for me. I'm a lot closer with my siblings now, particularly the youngest, but it's hard to have a healthy relationship as a kid with your siblings when your parents are so dysfunctional.
My sisters and my dynamic is actually different. I’d say I’m the leader (youngest), my oldest sister is the wild one/attention seeker, and my middle sister is the peace maker
6:50 my sister and I are 5 years apart. The age difference seemed even larger because she went off to college at 16. When she went off to college we got closer but it was more as a 2nd mom figure. She always looked at me as her baby sister. We became more like best sisters when we became pregnant at the same time. Now we have soooo much in common. I'm glad my sister became my best friend
I have 7 siblings, one older step sister, and then 6 younger siblings. The age differences between us are 9 months (older step sister), and then 12 months for my brother, 4 years for my sister, 13 years for my brother, 15 years for the next brother, and then 18 years for the last brother.
The relationship I have with each of the is so different. There's almost like a group of 4, then the 3 "littles" as we call them (even tho the youngest is 6 now lol). The younger three display their own oldest-middle-younger, because most of us were grown and for most of their lives.
The youngest out of 2 girls and my oldest if 15 years older than me and my middle sister is 8 years older than me. Growing up I always felt like the only child. I have a son and a daughter who are 2.5 years apart and all they do is fight but miss each other so much when they are apart.
Mom of twins here! They are now 4 months old, and it's hard. I have yet to sleep through the night. I also have an almost 4 year old. I am an only child myself, so I have no idea what they will be like. Big sister is very interested in the babies and loves to help out.
Well, I’m an only child, but still enjoyed this episode 😅 forever wishing I could have had a sibling!
This whole episode made me so jealous, I'm an only child😭
1/2 family dynamics 1/2 high school musical 😂
I have a sister 5 years older, a brother 7 years older, a sister 7 years younger and a brother 16 years younger. When I was younger I was closest to my older brother(I was his best man at his wedding 😊) nowadays I would say I’m closer to my younger sister.
I remind my kiddo all the time that he’s my first and only child so I haven’t patented before and am still figuring it out and so I’ll make mistakes!
riyan it is so true with my cousin's my mom is the oldest of 5, but I'm one of the youngest grandkids and I literally grew up on the same block with most of my cousins, we went prek through 12th grade bc my cousin was 2 wks younger than me even my 2nd and 3rd cousins we hang out with bc my grandma's house was still the gathering place so I saw my mom's cousins ALL THE TIME.
please talk about the computer games & random sites we’d find. especially the girly ones. the mama game for lizzie mcguire, m scene, girlsfogames. the books that were popular as kids ( my personal favorite of course being junie b jones) any iconic toys we just HAD to have. mine was both the bratz and barbie doll heads. the early morning programs for kids on nick jr, pbs kids &playhouse disney. how huge magazines were at one point like cosmogirl & seventeen. how serious the ships were when a show had a love triangle & everyone had to pick a side like on hannah montana lol. limited too being the IT store! i can go on and on lol
I loved hearing about different sibling dynamics. I have 4 siblings, but I didn’t grow up with them. They all live with out my and I live with my Dad. I feel right now with an 8 and 9 year age difference with my 2 sisters I’m struggling connecting them being in middle school and high school in a very different time then me. I hope as they continue to grow I can connect more with them.
Me and Ryan have the same sibling situation, my brother and I have a 12.5 year age gap. So we don't really have a birth order dynamic. In many many ways we are both leaders and planners.
I'm a twin (my twin is 12 minutes older) we are also the babies of the family. I find I more identify with "older sibiling" characteristics. I also have twin boys! Breastfeeding was such a struggle, they wouldn't nurse since they were born early and not strong enough to suck enough. I ended up pumping for a month before it was just too hard mentally and physically and switched to formula! And honestly just too much time wise! Having two babies that eat every three hours, but they both take an hour each to eat because they are so tired and than still having to pump... You need to be very organized and good at multi tasking to get everything done in a day! The first few months were very rough
Yay!!
WE NEED A DCOM EPISODDDEEEEE
Twin mama here 🙋🏻♀️ the you just do comment is so right. I have 1 year old twins and 2 year old son. (Twinnies are the best surprise God send us 🦋)
My mom's a twin, and my grandma said she couldn't breast feed both of them because she didn't give enough milk. So they were bottled fed, and when she told me about when they could eat baby food, she said she couldn't stop giving either of them food because they'd get jealous of the other baby lol
I'm someone who has 4 siblings and the age gaps are weird. In order it's: my sister (21) me (19) my brother (16) my sister (9) and my last brother (4). Yes, they are all from the same parents (my mom is amazing). My relationship with my older brother and sister is more bickering and we all can relate to each other more because we are legit in a completely different generation than my other brother and sister. We all kind of parent our younger two siblings and it's neat.
The interesting thing is that I am living at home for college and I share a room with a 9 year old and I am basically a mom to both of my youngest siblings. My brother who is 4 has some disabilities and made me want to major is special education. So my sibling dynamics are all over the place, but it's a fun time and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I'm the youngest and I'm 14 months younger than my brother too. Everyone thought we were twins until he shot up in height at age 13. Now I'm only 5'7 and he's 6'4 but we still look very similar
So everyone really made choreography with their younger cousin/ sibling huh?
The same exact dance moves I used 🫣🫣🫣🫣
i have a sister who’s 6 years older than me and it’s a sort of weird age gap. it’s not big enough to be riayns but i also kind of relate to my sister. she’s 21 now (im 15) and she is like a full grown adult while im just a little underclassmen in high school. i was ALWAYS the bossy, annoying, bad behaved one growing up (and still now) and my sister would take advantage of that to annoy me even more. we did put on shows (i was like 5, she was maybe 11) and sing frozen ahha i think we have grown closer since she went to college but i can never see her :(
I am an only child but my mom started dating someone that had three kids of his own. An older brother and two sisters around my age. I was in grade 3 when my mom and I moved in with them. So we went from a household of 2 to a household of 6. It was crazy. I definitely felt like betrayed almost. I went from having my own things and space to sharing my life with two other girls and an older boy. I grew up with them until I moved out at 16. My mom and him split up so I am back to an only child, well adult haha 😂
I actually had twins! A boy and a girl, and the little girl is 3 minutes older than him. She was baby A because she was lower and he was baby B because he was higher up. I was supposed to have a scheduled c section at 37 weeks however due to severe preeclampsia turning into HELLP syndrome. I had to deliver at 34 weeks and 2 days and I did have a vaginal birth!!! Baby girl was 5lbs and baby boy was 5 lbs 6 oz :)
The siblings topic is a hard one for me to think about at this time. My only sister died in January and I miss her so much. We were so so close growing up she was 2 years older than me. Sadly She made some bad choices the last year or so and we weren’t as close anymore. She was in sketchy situations and i wanted her to get her life together. The day she died she had went to the dr got back on her psych meds to try and feel better. but it didn’t mix well with the drugs in her system and she died. She loves purple butterflies so whenever I see these I think of her and I hope she thinks of me too. 💜
With parent permission of course, it would be neat to have Riayn's sister as a guest on the pod!
Edit: I married a twin and my husband is the older twin. It definitely shows personality wise that he's the older twin when you interact with both twins but they are the babies and have a lot of the peace keeping traits too.
I feel like I have a completely different dynamic than all of you. I am the youngest, only girl, and have two older brothers. There is a nine year age gap between my oldest brother and me at a four year age gap between my middle brother and me. I feel like growing up, my brother hated me. Especially my middle brother. I was supposed to have been born on his birthday, and he was not happy. I ended up being born the following day, and our parents had joint birthday parties for many years. with a nine year age gap between my oldest brother and I, he was just a teenager when I was starting to remember things so he was not around much. The first really big memory I have with my middle brother, but him showing me love, was after we had to evacuate our school due to a school fire. The middle school was on fire, and that was where I was at, and he was in the adjoining high school. I remember I was arguing with the secretary of the school as they kept saying our parents needed to get us or we needed to ride the bus. I literally lived right across from the school and could walk home. But they would not listen to me. My brother came over to the secretary and said, “I am here to take my little sister home “. He could have easily walked home with his friends and I would’ve been stuck there. as adults, we have such a different dynamic now and my oldest brother and I are the ones that talk the most, although when we are all together all three of us laugh like crazy. I am in my 40s, and my oldest brother has just turned 50, and sometimes it is like we were never the feuding siblings. living through the death of both parents, has been one of the hardest things we’ve all had to deal with, and we’ve all dealt with it at our own pace at our own time, but there’s definitely love and we definitely group together when things like that happen.
I am an only child and always wanted a sibling 🥺
can you rank Disney channel tv shows and movies
So I had to stop and say DCOM movies were the best for the time and still stand as my favorites. I BINGE HALLOWEENTOWN! 1,2&3 obviously and marnie is on tik tok and is engaged to Cal from halloweentown 2 I love it so much!
And zenon! With protazo and younger Raven! Ugh iconic I love it still to this day. When Disney plus came out I went insane and binged all my favorite movies
I'm the youngest of two, my brother is 3 years older than me and he classifies as a peace maker and i'm the loud one LOL
I have 4 brothers and sisters but they’re all in their 40s/almost 50s, I grew up as an only child and now my closest sibling just got on a plane literally yesterday and moved across the country 😢 she always took me on sister dates like that.
Def just feels disconnected and sad cause I feel like as a kid I just wanted to grow up so I could relate or whatever better and now I am but everybody’s gone. Meh
Edit: can confirm as the baby of the family I am 1000% the chill wants everybody to get along one lmaoooo makes so much sense
I was the youngest of 2. We are two girls. My sister was 5 years older and she Is super proper and organized and I'm crazy and a mess hahahaha We didnt really get along growing up. She tried being the bossy older sister but I shut that down since I was tiny.
I remember one funny story: I was like 4 and my sister was annoying me and hitting me and my mom saw I was mad and told her to leave me alone, but she didnt. I apparently told her I was gonna punch her if she didnt stop, she didnt...so 4 year old me made my sister cry by almost breaking her nose lol She tried to tell on me but my mom was like " uhh uh I told you to leave her alone"
So like me and my sister are 17 months apart and we always got along well, but then my little brother is harder since he’s 9 I’m 26, 16 year age difference and it’s hard to get along cause he’s a kid, and I’m a adult and so it’s different dynamics ⚡️
That psychological sibling order thing does not AT ALL apply to me and my siblings lol. My youngest brother is the wild one, my younger brother isn't really pulled between me and my youngest brother he's closer to me. The only accurate thing is that I'm the "leader," but even that is kinda faulty because I have an older brother who is 6 years older than me, but my dad jokes that he has an only child and 3 kids