lindsay lohan could relate

I think Elias has been a bit moody lately. sometimes he is too wild, sometimes he seems glum. he is struggling to get enough attention. when a boy gets to be six, he's expected to be rambunctious and invulnerable. that's not fair. elias supresses a lot of his own desires and needs bcs he's the oldest and needs to help us with the littler ones a lot. he grasps the imprtance of doing this and does it without being asked a lot of the time. but it is not easy. his emotions lie close to the surface, and it seems like he's getting his feelings hurt a lot lately by the strains and obligations of being the oldest one. mostly he needs more one on one attention. it's not easy when the other two make it so patently obvious that they demand HIS attention and companionship for most of their daily walking around time. the high price of popularity.