The+Sibling+Problem

This article is about a mom with two boys. One boy is autistic, his name is Nate and he is 14 years old, the younger brother is Joey and he is 8 years old. The mom explains how they went shopping for shoes one day and Nate tends to throw tantrums. So Joey, before they went shopping told his mom, hey if Nate throws a tantrum I can handle it, you yelling does not make it any better no offense. The mom said that she took no offense to that at all, in fact Joey was right, yelling at Nate was not going to make him understand fully what he was doing wrong. This article talks about how little brother Joey is actually not so little anymore. He has had to become a more mature person to deal with his brothers disability. It talks about how Joey has had to take on the task of parental responsibilities, confusion, feeling left out of the family because all the attention has to go to older brother Nate do to his disability, and also embarrasment and he feels guilty for feeling like that. So Joey has had to grow up faster than most 8 year olds would. Very good article.