Babyhood

Thursday night was my women’s group and the book we are studying this year is called “Siblings Without Rivalry”. The aim is to help our children get along and the first group exercise we did was to take turns in telling the others about our own sibling relationships. Some of the stories were quite harrowing, as most of the women come from relatively large families and told sad stories about bullying older brothers, jealous sisters, illness and death, and even conflicts which have led to present day estrangements. I was literally the only one who only took two minutes and said simply that I had a very happy childhood, got on extremely well with my brother and still do! The others jokingly accused me of having blocked out some horrible events from my memory! It was quite an eye-opener to see what some of my friends have been through.