Dear Editor,

I want to share my opinion on being the eldest in the kids.

Parents have at least two kids is not uncommon in Hong Kong. However, how many parents can treat all their kids alike? People always say that the elder should give way to the younger. But what situations ought to be given way?

As an eldest sister in my family, sometimes I will feel so perplexed that I would do more things than the younger sisters do when I was in their ages. I help do the housework in a small age, they don’t yet. But we get our first pocket money at the same time!

Parents constantly compare the younger’s new result with my old result. They also have higher requests which give more pressures to eldest. The eldest always try anything first. Maybe that is why the eldest generally be tougher, more silent and more difficult to know their mind.

Winnie So F.3C

Leung Shek Chee College