1. When one child cares and attends to another child in the absence of parents, so that parent can engage in adult actives.

2. Being forced to babysit your siblings without pay.

The two states of being are as a human being, or a hungry ghost. Semi-regularly you need to ask yourself which you are. Sometimes it is human. Others, alas, it is hungry ghost.

The hungry ghost seeks validity outside of themselves. Someone pining for an indifferent ex is a hungry ghost. Someone who arrives alone at 6:30 on Saturday night to a pub is probably a hungry ghost. Obsessive checking of mobile phones, chat sites or networks are clear signs that one is a hungry ghost.

The best thing to do is just stay home and ride it out. Read a book. Find some good clean fun.

The act of taken another families child. Raising them as your own. Feeding them only shit. Water them with niece milk. Changing their soil every now and then. Make sure they see sunlight at least once a month. Then name them Marcello and send them off to Mexico

the act of being a child