Theinfantwas seemingly unbothered, focusing on drinking her milk. At one point, she appeared to playfully poke her older sister’s cheek, who remained concentrated on her studies.
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Yingz wrote in the caption of her video: “She is the biggest sister of the family.
“Her mom is busy running errands.
“This is better than having to miss school to look after your sister, right?”
The little girl, nicknamed “Green,” was studiously working on her school assignments
As per the Thai outlet, the educator added: “I’m not sure how other teachers would feel, but I always tell my students not to miss class… and she is really doing it.
“Good thing her sister is not naughty.”
While the 20-second clip left viewers divided, a person commented: “She is very tough, writing with one hand and holding her sister in the other.”
Taking to her TikTok page on May 20, a schoolteacher uploaded a video of her fifth-grade student cradling her tiny sibling
In many non-Western cultures, it is common and expected for older siblings to take care of their younger siblings.
Moreover, older siblings help support parents who are engaged in essential subsistence tasks,Handbook of Applied Developmental Science in Sub-Saharan Africaexplains.
Similarly, inEast Asiancultures, older siblings are socialized to provide material and emotional support from a young age, an article published in theJRank Family Encyclopediaoutlines.
In an articledebunking Western parenting beliefs, Dr. Christina Scott, professor of Social Psychology at Whittier College in California, toldBored Panda: “Western countries are typically more individualistic in nature, meaning that we put the needs of the individual above the needs of the group as compared to collectivistic nations, which focus on the welfare of the group as the priority.”
She further explained: “When asked ‘How would you describe yourself?’, most children from individualistic nations will pick personal adjectives such as ‘smart, funny, happy,’ etc., while children from collectivistic countries will choose words to describe their relationship to others, [such as] ‘sister, daughter, friend,’ etc.”
“There’s nothing the eldest can’t do, especially the older sister,” a TikTok user commented
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