How birth order affects personality
by vijigermany
How birth order affects personality
Personality development is a complex process that is affected by lots of different variables.
While its wrong to say that one factor is solely responsible for developing the personality of a child still you can confidently assume that some factors can affect the personality to a great extent provided that the other factors are constant.
Birth order and the child's personality
The first born, the oldest child:
The first born is the one who learns how to take responsibility at an early age because he is usually asked to help his parents with the new born children.
The first born usually develops Good leadership abilities and the role of the care taker.
The first born also feels threatened by his new born brother because he losses a big part of the attention that he was getting before the arrival of the new child.
The youngest child:
The youngest child usually competes with the first born on attention and this sometimes leads to an intensifying the rivalry between them
. Sometimes the youngest child becomes a risk taker because he learns how to do anything to get attention even if it was dangerous.
The Youngest child might also learn how to become a rebel because of the frustration he usually experiences when he fails to do the things that the oldest child is doing.
The middle child:
The middle Child suffers the most because he is the one who gets the least attention.
He finds himself stuck between the youngest and the oldest who get most of the attention and that's why he learns how to become diplomatic and calm.
His role usually becomes the peace maker who maintains peace between the youngest and the oldest.
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