My little sister is Tess and she is 11 years old, but personally, I will always see her as a 6 year old with all four of her front teeth knocked out. She has blonde hair that sweeps at the top of her waist and large eyes the color of a cloudless blue sky framed with long, fluttering eyelashes. Tess has round rosy cheeks, a little button nose, and she is so short that the top of her head makes the perfect armrest. Tess has enough personality for the two of us combined. She’s outgoing, sweet, sassy, and absolutely loves when the spotlight is on her. She has witty responses for everything I say and always has a smile to share. I call her “Shrimp Nugget” - she doesn’t really mind. We may look nothing alike, but I swear we are related.
Shrimpy…show more content… You learn how to share your crayons and Barbies which later translates into life as sharing your knowledge and opinions. You learn how to compromise when your sister wants to play Princess and you want to play Zoo, which trains you to have an open mind and find creative ways around a problem. You learn how to become a good listener when she is practicing her lines for the third grade play when honestly you’d rather be planning a pre-party for the Neon Dance at the middle school or be dancing alone in your room with a case of Bieber Fever to Justin’s new song “Beauty and a…show more content… It helps you keep yourself in check. When you have a little human looking up to you, you feel a sense of responsibility and try your best not to let her down. No one is perfect, and certainly not a big sister. You make mistakes and there are bumps in the road. What measures your ability to be a good big sister is how well you handle and recover from these bumps. You have to acknowledge your mistakes, apologize, learn from them, but most importantly, move on. If you spend all your time dwelling on our mistakes or the bad example you left for your little sister, you are leaving an even worse lesson: “You are not allowed to mess up.” I don’t ever want Tess to ever think that people are expecting her to be perfect. You learn and progress through trial and error, and sometimes there is a lot of error before there is success, but you have to realize that no one is judging you for your errors because everyone else is going through the exact same
