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Welcome to the OG Therapy.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the episode of OG Therapy. And today's episode is about your brother's keeper.

It's about siblings. And hopefully don't,

the problem isn't the best example, because I'm pretty sure he killed his brother in that Bible store. Anyways, moving on. Sibling rivalries are big deal. Siblings fighting are a big deal.

However, siblings getting along and working out their differences, that's also a big deal

just in a good way. So today I got a question from a last speaking event from a teenager,

and the question goes like this. How can I be a better older sibling or for some other people,

how could they be a better younger sibling? So I'm assuming by this question that this is the

older sibling. And I'm glad that I got this question. I don't get a lot of sibling questions,

but when I do get them, I always choose them because that's how sibling, that's how young kids

growing up. That's how they learn to deal with confrontation, sharing what's yours, what's mine.

Everybody always says, you know, only children, you know,

they're the worst because, you know, they get spoiled, they get everything they want. I don't

specifically agree with that. I know a lot of only children that were great kids, great friends

of mine growing up. The difference was how their parents treated them. So if you're only child and you're

getting spoiled all the time, yeah, it's going to be harder. So siblings, though, the reason why I like

this question with siblings is that siblings really teach us so much about the outside world. Like we're

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