To find this aggravating

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Does anyone else with children with a very large age gap find their eldest (adult child) trying to take over take over or interfere with the parenting of their sibling?

their stock phrase is I’m an adult and I’m entitled to an opinion, telling sibling what they can or can’t where regularly telling parents they are only interfering as they don’t feel parents are doing a good job of discipline sibling and that somebody needs to do it…

criticising parents if they don’t shout at it discipline their siblings or basically do things they don’t agree with.

it’s exhausting. I appreciate they care but seriously this isn’t our first rodeo and eldest child us just causing tension.

Aibu to tell them to get lost ?

I have two DSs - 24 and 16. If DS1 commented on our parenting of DS2, he would receive a very short, robust response.

I mean I'd say it depends - if you've got one child who's 20 and one who's 6 who's being a pain and parents ignore it, why wouldn't the other child tell them to stop? Even without a large age gap siblings do that to each other!

I would say my mum was so much more lenient with the youngest - bloody painful to watch 😂

Really depends on the situation to be honest, especially if we’re talking about the older one being an adult

Does your oldest child feel that you're much softer on the youngest child than you were with the eldest? This is a common complaint in families, that the youngest is spoilt and gets away with more! It's not unusual for parents to be much more relaxed with their youngest which can be annoying to the older siblings they were strict with!