Role Model to younger brothers and sisters?

[Quarterback]

For those of you that have younger brothers or sisters, and that are the oldest in the family, do you try and be a role model for them? Or do you do what you want to, and not really care what how they see you behave?

I have always tried to be a role model for my brothers and sisters, I have 3 brothers ages 11, 16, 17, and 2 sisters, ages 4, (adopted), and 18. It's important to me that they see you can enjoy life, have fun, work in school, without getting in trouble or using drugs or alcohol, or succumb to peer pressure.

In high school, there were lots of things I did not do, lots of parties I did not go to, peer pressure I resisted because in the back of my mind, other than the consequences, I thought of what it would look in the eyes of my siblings. Because my father died when I was 14, and my mother is a trauma surgeon, my sister and I, who is 18 now, helped our mom with the younger kids, in our single parent family, to take the load off my mom.

Myself, I much rather enjoyed buying every one of them my football jersey with my number #11 on it, and letting them be proud of who their older brother was, rather then ignore them, let them get into trouble or make bad choices, or make them ashamed of me.

 

[Siberian_Khatru]

For those of you that have younger brothers or sisters, and that are the oldest in the family, do you try and be a role model for them? Or do you do what you want to, and not really care what how they see you behave?

I care how everybody sees me! Not out of some form of egoism, but because how I come across not only may impact others (what you lead people with is what you lead people to), I'm representing my faith, as well. Gotta walk the walk, so to speak.

That aside, I do not have any siblings. I do recall being the oldest at one point at the daycare I was in when I was eleven years old, and at that time, all of the other kids seemed to respond to that. At such a tender age, I don't think I had much of a long haul impact, but I remember the dynamic feeling tacit and trying to be a good example and maintain good repute with everyone.