What I’m really thinking: the eldest child

I had to be sensible, responsible – and now our parents are old, I have to play that role againIt could have been any of us, but it happened to be me. A brief 18 months of undivided attention and love as the only child, before three more appeared. The second was a severe blow. No doubt, learning the need to share was important, but I had tasted the life of an only child.Then came years of requests to look after a younger sibling, exhortations of, “You should be setting a be