Today during dinner tonight my mother pointed something out that gave me a deep chill throughout my whole body. She said that my brother Quinn was going to be gone pretty soon and I better get used to the idea of being the only kid in the house. I grew up with three very loud and very rambunctious older brothers who always made it easy for me to go along unbothered because my parents were busy worrying about them. However, now that I am the only child left in our house I know that I will get more unearned attention than Paris Hilton. Every little thing I will do will be the story of the week and I will have a catastrophic overflow of questions on a daily basis. Im not saying that I don't love my parents but like most teenagers I can get very grouchy and if on one of these bad days I don't feel like answering any questions and my folks poke the bear, I don't know what's gonna happen. I hope that I am making mountains out of mole hills and I guess there will be no way of knowing what it will be like until my bro Quinn leaves in the fall. I just hope that I will learn to embrace all of the attention and that my parents will figure out that sometimes teenagers just need to be silent.
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I feel the exact same way. Now that my brother went off to college, I have recieved soooooo much unwanted attention. I know that it is only my prents showing that they care for me and well now that my brother is not home I am the main thing they focus on. When I am home I find it irritating how many questions my parents are constatly asking and how interested they are in every little thing I do. I find myself trying to get out of the house more often. I think it is important that they find a balance and hopefully in the future it will mellow out and they will find something else to focus on.
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