This question somehow popped out in a conversation I had with kn the previous day: When exactly do our roles as a child swap with out parents'? I.e. When do we start supporting our parents, stop relying on them and let them rely on us?

Once we reach 21? Upon graduating from uni? When we start working full-time? When we feel like it?

When do we start becoming the mediator when they quarrel?

When do we start holding back things we want to say or share so as to not affect or hurt their feelings?

When will we ever be big enough to correct them on their mistakes without seeming rude?

Idk man. And it sucks being the younger sibling cuz you cannot seem to interfere in such matters when your elder sibling has not. Maybe it's just me, idk.

Maybe everything will eventually fall in place somehow on its own..