Growing up as an only child

Growing up as an only child




There are so many different cultures in our world. The culture that I would like

to share is being raised an only child. I look around and realize that this culture is

relatively small as the majority of families have at least two or more children in them. I

rarely come across friends that I meet that are an only child. To be an only child isn’t

bad but can sometimes be lonely. Growing up I always wished that someday I would

have a brother or a sister.

I could always remember asking my parents for a baby brother or sister

and wondered why they never had another one. I sometimes thought they didn’t

want another child because I was so difficult to raise. Since I was never going to

have a sibling; I would go through life as being an only child. As an only child I would

get asked a lot of questions, such as do you get everything you want, do you like being

the only child an...