Jeffrey Kluger Quotes About Siblings

• It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Daughter, Mother, Sibling

• Certainly, people can get along without siblings. Single children do, and there are people who have irreparably estranged relationships with their siblings who live full and satisfying lives, but to have siblings and not make the most of that resource is squandering one of the greatest interpersonal resources you'll ever have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Children, Sibling, Single Child

• Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Parent, Focus

• We're learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if they're broken. We're also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings - stepsiblings, half-siblings - and the surprising power they can have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Broken, Important

• If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Skills

• My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Long, Half

  Jeffrey Kluger (2011). “The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us”, p.10, Penguin

• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

• Hay una especie de moratoria entre hermanos cuando te estás estableciendo como adulto. Hay que concentrar mucha energía en otras cosas, como el trabajo y los hijos. Pero cuando la gente está más asentada, los hermanos tienden a reagruparse porque ahora estás construyendo una nueva familia ampliada.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Kids, People

• Cuando eres la única oportunidad que tienen tus padres de dejar un legado genético, puedes ir a los mejores colegios, llevar la mejor ropa y comer los mejores alimentos, al menos en comparación con los niños de familias con varios hermanos. Pero también acabas teniendo un sentido exagerado de tu propia importancia.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Niños, Hermanos, Escuela

• Cuando aprendes a resolver conflictos en la sala de juegos, los pones en práctica en el patio, y eso se queda contigo. Si tienes un hermano mayor combativo o físicamente intimidante, aprendes mucho sobre cómo enfrentarte a ese tipo de situaciones más adelante en la vida. Si eres un hermano mayor y tienes un hermano pequeño que necesita tutoría o tiene miedo a la oscuridad, desarrollas habilidades de crianza y empatía que de otro modo no tendrías.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sibling, Dark, Later In Life

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