My brother's going away to college. I'm very sad?
I can assure you this must be as hard for your brother as it is to you. I´m at college too, and I also had to leave my family and home to study. At first I thought it ´d be easy to adapt. Besides, I was kind of glad I´d be able to be on my own for a while and have some real time for myself, since I happen to have two older brothers and two baby sisters. But still, even after two years have already come to pass, I can´t help but keep missing all of them. And we didn´t even got along THAT well -_-U If you say you´re both really close, I´m sure that strong bond you have with your brother will never fade, be replaced, be broken, changed or anything your fear of losing him could fathom. I´m not sure if this phrase could be applied here, but the first time I read it, it really touched my heart. It says: "If you love someone, truly love them, let them go. Because if they come back, it means they were always yours. And if they don´t, they never were." In your case, I believe the best you can do is to be strong for both your brother and yourself, because he will also be having a hard time leaving all that is precious to him behind, and he´ll need all the support from his friends and family to keep moving forward and not regret the choice he has made. It´s just how life is. Soon you´ll also be leaving your home to live your life the way you want it and I´m sure your brother will be there for you to help you take that first step too n___n Be strong!! You´ll miss him a lot, but keep in mind that now he has finally chosen a path for himself; and when he leaves, he will be taking that first step to achieve all his dreams and goals; and YOU, as his only and beloved sibling, must be there to lend him all the self-confidence that he might need. Sigh*... I sure hope all of this serves you of something, ´cause I know it can get really hard sometimes. I wish you and your brother luck!
How to deal with your brother going away to college?
i have 3 brothers 2 older, 1 young so i still have a brother with me at home. but i was pretty close to my older brothers so i get what you mean. even tho u wont c him every day you can still call him and email him and IM him. mayb you can buy him and yourself webcams and then you 2 can talk over the computer. me and my brothers call eachother a lot, and after a while u get used to it. it will b ok, just spend as much time as u can with him now.
How to deal with a brother leaving for college?
hi! I'm 15 and my older brother is leaving for college tomorrow morning. I just said goodbye to him, and although I have sort of been in denial the past few weeks, I started bawling when I had to say goodbye. He is my best friend. I come to him with any of my problems and he is always the one I count on for advice. I don't know who I can turn to for computer help at 11 pm anymore, or who's room I can go to just to talk about my day. I'm crying as I type this, I am going to miss him SO much. I live with my mom and younger sister, but I don't have nearly the same relationship with them as I have with my brother. I can't picture family dinners without him. His college is a 10 hour drive (or a plane ride) away, and I can't go with him to set up his dorm or anything. I'm not going to see him until Thanksgiving, and then Christmas. I know I can Skype and call and text and everything, but it won't nearly be the same. I am so terrified and worried and sad and lonely right now, any advice for people who have been through this? sorry its so long, but thank you!
What is the most annoying thing about your brother/sister?
The most annoying thing about my sister?She broke an unwritten agreement that I thought we had. She was the teen mother/high school drop-out, but still nice person who was supposed to stay in our hometown and take care of my parents as they got older.I was the smart, college-educated one who was going to move to the big city and start my own family and have a successful career.The system was working great until seven years ago. I was 30 then, a teacher, married, had a house and just two kids by then. I was happy and successful. My parents were both retired and my father was sick, but my sister still lived near them (I was settled 1,000 miles away), so she kept an eye on them for me.Then she got selfish and died.Suddenly, I had two families in two places that needed me: my parents, and my wife and kids. Moving back to my hometown was out of the question, and my parents didn’t want to move closer to me. So I did the best I could to help them from so far away, and with a busy life already, raising my own family.My father died about a year later. My sister’s death made him give up on trying to fix his own health issues.That was five years ago. My mother still lives far away, now without her husband or daughter to help her.So that’s what annoys me about my sister. She’s dead, and she shouldn’t be. She didn’t keep her end of the agreement I thought we had.
My little sister gets bullied. How do I help her?
When I was in middle school, I was bullied on the school bus very horribly. People would take off my shoes and throw them out the window. I got to walk home in bare feet, in an area where goatheads were prevalent. A boy once spat in my hair on the bus.When my older sister and her friend found out, they got in their cars and approached each one of the bullies when they were walking home by themselves and threatened them to within an inch of their lives if they ever said boo to me. No one ever bothered me after that.But, that was 40 years ago, and that probably wouldn’t work today.I’m still in favor of taking somebody out and beating the crap out of them.
What is the best way to motivate my younger brother to go to school?
You have to lower his standard of living. As long as he is enabled to be contented enough, he will continue as he is. He will come up with creative solutions when his comfort level is affected. In AA, this is called hitting bottom.In bird lingo this is called, kicking them out of the nest. Or weening them from the breast.[Edit]Our oldest boy was given the choice. He could go to college full time and have complete room and board if he took a full load. If he wanted, he could reduce his academic hours but was expected to pay a ratio accordingly. He thought it was great but three weeks in, he didn't have a job and quit going to class. We had him leave and he stayed at his friends, then got a job. He never kept a job more than 9 months and with most, about 6 or less. He was a salesmen. And guess what? He became a recruiter, eventually setting up his own head hunting company. I joked with him, I didn't know he was doing all those jobs, so he knew how to get each and every one of them, in order to help people later.I have also had patients where their young adult had to work and payed their own way to college first. At the end of semester, they were reimbursed commensurate with grades.
My brother and sister call me anorexic?
Been there, done that. I was about 90 pounds until the year of my sophomore year in college. People always called me anorexic and told me to eat a cheeseburger. (Sadly enough, this happened both at home and at school.) High school was hard enough but having people ask you if you have an eating disorder is hard. And anorexia is not when you force yourself to throw up. That is bulimia. So I would tell your sister to do some research and get her facts right before she ran around starting stuff. This is cliche, but at the age of 20 I can honestly say that it will go away, people will mature and grow up. Things will get better.
My brother is not planning to come to my college graduation, should I tell him I'm disappointed?
I would be very disappointed that one of my brothers didn't come to my graduation. I would actually be kinda mad. And if it's your only brother I would think he should really come and not have to make a big deal of it. Especially if they didn't come to the first one. I would ask him to PLEASE make it. Tell him that you really want him there and that you want his support. And if the wife has health problems I would think it would be okay for her to sit this one out. It's not like it's your sister. Personally speaking I would be giving them the cold shoulder too if they said they weren't coming to my graduation. Your graduation comes (usually) only once in a life time, Christmas happens quite often.
Which sentence is correct "my brother and my sister are in America" or "my brother and sister are in America"?
Even though both the sentences appear to be correct, "my brother and sister are in America", is effective communication, the definition of which is, “it should convey more meaning with fewer words.” This itself conveys the clear meaning that you are talking about only your brother and sister, and not about anybody else’s sister. You achieve this by omitting the redundant ( unnecessarily excessive) “my”, the second time, and so it becomes effective communication.Edit DraftRequestFollowCommentShare