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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 408560" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>It is fairly typical for the sibs to act out when one of the others goes away.</p><p></p><p>Either they are scared that they will get sent off too or they think that the sibling got to go somewhere fun, so they try to act up to get to go too. </p><p></p><p>When my youngest was sent to a wilderness camp at 11 years old, we thought he would be so upset and crying his eyes out when we left him...ha! He was happy as a lamb as we waved good-bye. Meanwhile his 13 year old brother was having a meltdown the size of texas in the car. You would have thought we were beating the tar out of him the way he was carrying on! He was so jealous. He didnt calm down and act his normal teen self until his brother was gone about a month. Then he figured out he wouldnt want to be gone that long from home. He thought, in that little pea brain of his, that his misbehaving brother was getting a reward by getting sent to camp. Well he kind of was except this wasnt your normal summer camp...lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 408560, member: 1514"] It is fairly typical for the sibs to act out when one of the others goes away. Either they are scared that they will get sent off too or they think that the sibling got to go somewhere fun, so they try to act up to get to go too. When my youngest was sent to a wilderness camp at 11 years old, we thought he would be so upset and crying his eyes out when we left him...ha! He was happy as a lamb as we waved good-bye. Meanwhile his 13 year old brother was having a meltdown the size of texas in the car. You would have thought we were beating the tar out of him the way he was carrying on! He was so jealous. He didnt calm down and act his normal teen self until his brother was gone about a month. Then he figured out he wouldnt want to be gone that long from home. He thought, in that little pea brain of his, that his misbehaving brother was getting a reward by getting sent to camp. Well he kind of was except this wasnt your normal summer camp...lol. [/QUOTE]
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