Brothers and Sisters Overview - Taking responsibility for good relationships within your family is a key component of the Power of One's Family Ties projects. You may think that being someone's sister or brother is a passive role-that you had nothing to do with the arrival of that sibling, and have little or no impact on their lives.
Most people believe that parents are the only members of a family who affect child development.
In other words, children often help raise children in important ways. For example, parents decide children have to clean up after supper, but siblings decide among themselves who performs each task. Now many studies of the importance of positive sibling relationships on mental health have been done, and efforts to help siblings learn to work together are underway as more people realize bad relationships don't have to be the norm. In this project, you'll find information on the Web on the power of sibling relationships and evaluate your role as a sibling leader in your own family. Finally, see the Official Homepage of Sibling's Day for national recognition of the role of siblings in family life 2.