How sense of responsibility is more in older child than younger child?

Question

I have got an assignment on how sense of responsibility is more in older child than younger child?so i need your help

Answer 1

As the child gets older he or she will realise that by doing certain things, certain other things will happen.

For example, you ask them to tidy their room, that if they do, then in return they get something they want, but if they don't, then they may get something they don't like a grounding.

Also, that by doing things, they are setting an example to a younger sibling, which gives them the pleasure of being able to show somebody that they can do things the others cannot.

As they get older and bigger, they are able, and indeed expected to be able to do more things than when they were younger, so from their experiences in life, they are able to pass stuff onto the younger person.

Basically it all comes as a part of growing up, we all grow and mature at different rates, and are able to take responsibility, or not at different times in your lives.

mike t.

Answer 2

In general, the older we get, the more we realize the consequences of our actions and the consequences they can have on us and on others..  This is called maturity and is the result of experience, usually bad experience.  Eventually, we begin to realize that our parents were not just blowing smoke with many of the things they told us.  There ARE valid reasons for not running with scissors and we eventually come to see what they are.

In some of us, what happens to others also begins to matter.  When we care about someone, it being too early to talk of love yet, what happens to that person and what that person feels about what we do both start to matter and we begin to pay attention to our behavior.  Others of us don't care at all and never really do mature as human beings, but let's leave them out of this.

The younger child is easy to understand.  He or she sees and wants and nothing else matters.  The food or candy or toy is appealing, so it must go to the little monster, or angel, or somewhere in between.  The sooner the line saying "No!" can be drawn in this, the better.

Answer 3

Because older childeren take on responsabilities for the younger children.

There is a book called "Birth Order" I cant remeber who the author is but look it up at your local library, the whole book is on that subject.