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Do you think she gets enough privacy and individual attention?
I grew up hiding things from my parents, relishing secrets and sometimes telling pointless (and harmless) lies in order to have something unique to me.
I only figured out years later that this was probably connected with sharing a bedroom with my sister, and the fact that we were always lumped together as "the girls" to differentiate us from my younger brother.
My older sister was a real home-bird, and quite shy so we went everywhere together - Brownies, dance classes, parties. We also shared our main out-of-school friend (our next door neighbour who went to a different school). The irony was that my sister was very likeable once she got past the shyness, and even at the time I resented the fact that she wouldn't be there without me, but people liked her better.
I wonder if being secretive is a way of feeling more important?
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