When I was in my teens and maybe before that, my friends and I always caused trouble in school. We always had to do something that would attract a teacher's attention (dismiss classes, run away from school, change identities, etc..).

When the teacher or the head finds out, we'd keep quiet hoping that they'd figure it out on their own. We never point fingers on each other and never told a teacher who's responsibility that was.

Once, our Islamic teacher passed around the Holly Quran to swear on that we didn't do it and my friends and I said this:
"I swear to God I know who did it, but I won't tell you" :p

That did not only happen with my friends in school but also at home. My elder brothers and I would always cover for one another.

Growing up, I got used to not pointing fingers whenever there's a problem. Until today, when I know the source of a problem, I don't point it. I would throw a hint but I won't specifically point out the source.

Today, I saw my younger brother complaining to my father about my youngest brother for doing so and so although they're quite close and are always together but for some reason, the youngest was caught red handed :rn:

I was thinking about it this evening and was wondering: Does being the responsible one (elder brother over younger brother, for example) have anything to do with "putting you in trouble"?

What kind of relationship did you have with your siblings? Did you point fingers at one another even when you were the cause of the problem? Or did you cover for one another? Was it a different relationship than what you had with your friends, or the same thing?

Share.. Were you pointing fingers? :rolleyes:

Me and my brother are very close, despite the conflicts we have.. I feel like strangling him at times, but who am I kidding? He's the closest of all my siblings, since we share the same parents and our age difference isn't that big.

As kids we used to always hang around with each other, share the same toys, same bedroom.. We were like twins :D Always had each others backs, but as we grew up and started hitting our teens, we'd get into serious conflicts and end up physically hurting each other, then due to my rage I'd tell on him if anything goes wrong around the house.. Even if it has nothing to do with our current conflict.. However, I think my brother realizes by now that I can't control myself when I'm angry, so we just avoid conflicts as much as we can now :)

As for my younger brother and sister, I always tell on them to my mum! I feel it is my responsibility.. First I tell them off, and if they keep doing it again and again.. That's when my mum comes in the picture. They know they shouldn't mess with me, 'coz I have a big mouth :D

My brother and I are barely a year apart and man we could really come up with some mischief and we would either bicker, break something, or antagonize my little sister. My mom would come in the room all puffing and huffing mad with her PR temper asking who did what and with eyes wide we would all say in unison: "NOT ME!!!!"

What I learned is... If you are older.. and you are with young people.. you get blamed..
My mom and dad would throw everything on me when I was with them because they could have learned this and that from me.
It is like the only person they see is ME!
Even when I try to stop them and shout at them to make them stop they will blame me since I am the older one.

Since then my relationship with my brothers went down.
But I never pointed out that "he" did this or that UNLESS if it VERY bad and I don't want to see him doing it again...

(Things happen now but I just tell them if they do it again I will tell and they stop.. for good...)

My mum always said she was dying to meet this person "It wasnt me" because everytime something happened in our house and my parents asked who did it, the answer was always "It wasnt me" :D:p

^ Funny! There must be someone, eh? :p

I know and what is even more funny when my daughter was a little girl she would do something bad and then when I asked what happened she was like "Not me mommy!" Then I would be like "WHO then?"

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Like mother like daughter! :XD:

Well, they always did stuff to tick me off. It's a Tom and Jerry relationship after all. Jerry is the innocent one who teases Tom, and poor Tom does something that ends up putting him in trouble.

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Like mother like daughter! :XD:


I could never really get mad at her...if you saw what my daughter looked like as a baby...all curls, big brown eyes...I melted. But sure she got put in time out for her troubles....:cute:

only my baby sister told on us when she was a baby. god! i managed to hate her for a whole day back then. i got some serious whipping thanks to her tattling! even when she cries out of the blue, we get whipped for it lol. never made a difference to my dad. if she's upset then maybe hitting someone will make it better. pfft..

we're really close and we usually don't tell on each other, unless one of us gets into some serious trouble and it's better if mom knew, to avoid even more trouble.

If my brothers or sisters were doing something I thought was very wrong, yes I would tell on them even if my parents didn't ask me. Usually my brother who's a couple of years younger than me gets into trouble because of me. We never got along so I actually enjoyed telling on him and watching him get punished :p

if they did something wrong then yes would point and tell