web watch Who ya gonna call? Making the best of lifelong sibling relationships BY CHERYL HARBOUR W e know what the ideal sibling relationship is: someone with whom you share history and in cases of siblings born to the same parents, genetic material. Someone you call in the best of times and the worst of times. But not all sibling relationships are ideal and some are rocked by life's circumstances and end up on shaky ground. Yet science has shown that older people in particular are happier when they feel close to a brother or sister. And these relationships become even more crucial as parents (or siblings themselves) grow old or become sick. The quality of your relationship with your siblings may have been brewing for many years. One study found that having poor sibling relationship in childhood serves as a major indicator of who experiences depression in later life. We can't go back - but we can go forward and work on the relationships we have now. And we can understand how important sibling relationships are for our children and grandchildren. Click here to learn more. " Are our relationships set by experiences when we're growing up together? What about birth order, for example - did our siblings get the better place in the line-up? " For many years, it was believed that birth order had great influence over our personalities, our strengths, and the type of life we'd lead: Older children became leaders; younger became creative and adventurous. Newer research disputes those stereotypes, as this article in the Washington Post explains. 30 GRAND SPRING 2020 Continued on next pagehttps://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0994809700/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0994809700&linkId=c0cf2342749a51234e00421ef2df453e https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003B6QYSW/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=grandmagazi0d-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B003B6QYSW&linkId=74a78ba0a510c9871c2e38f745d59213 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17541056/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/03/14/birth-order-doesnt-shape-personality-after-all/