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I guess I have been very fortunate. I grew up in a family of six ( four boys and two girls ) and there was never really any SR that I can recall. We had our differences and petty squabbles once in a while, but nothing that can actually be called a 'rivalry.' And today, we are all very close! Lucky, huh? 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 23, 2014 at 6:41 AM
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SR can be devastating especially when onesided and
the other is unaware it exists. My sister told me she hated me for years because she felt she was always being compared to me. I never knew. Great pictures.
posted by
skye08
on December 22, 2014 at 6:41 PM
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TAPS
Neat blog, we had a lot of SR to this day, mostly I was closest to my oldest brother Michael, the rest disrespected me most of my life.
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 22, 2014 at 6:05 PM
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Goodness Taps we were the most quarrelsome trio imaginable. Eventually we became good friends, but took some doing, Your Gang look like Angels in comparison.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 22, 2014 at 10:17 AM
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Haha - I remember how my boys phoo-phooed me when I would tell them they would be best friends when older. Mama was right!
Lovely grandchildren, TAPS!
posted by
adnohr
on December 21, 2014 at 5:52 PM
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that little boy is just adoring his sister...and the older group it is lovely to see them all together ...what a beauty that Mandy is and I bet the guys are all protective of her and she may not even know. Years later I have run into old aquaintances who laughingly told me how my male cousins would keep them from dancing with us girls or talking to us....them having decided said boy was not good enough for the girls to mix with.
posted by
Kabu
on December 21, 2014 at 5:10 PM
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You do a great job keeping track of all of your grandchildren.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 21, 2014 at 4:41 PM
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It's how we learn to compete out in the world - by starting with our sibs.
It's nature's way of making us all faster, stronger, more ambitious than we might have been with nobody to test ourselves against. With my sis and bro, we might butt heads but nobody else better mess with 'em.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 21, 2014 at 2:34 PM
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TAPS
Beautiful kids! And sibling rivalry is completely normal, except for the odd case when it becomes pathological. But these days, just by acquiring an acronym, it becomes a 'disease' - ridiculous...There are just too many 'experts' looking for things to go on about and making careers for themselves...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 21, 2014 at 1:41 PM
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