Comments on: W is for Whatever

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:29:47 +0000

In reply to hbksloss. There's a lot to temperament--my eldest daughter has always been extremely private; the younger one far less so. I suspect this is another chicken/egg puzzle.

By: hbksloss

hbksloss — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 07:50:57 +0000

Our 2nd child couldn’t wait for her older brother to move out to go to college. He demanded lots of attention, but she found much to her dismay that with him gone, we focussed on her. She was thrilled when he came home, even though he wasn’t always nice to her, he took our focus away from her!

Neither birth position is better to me, just different. The question I like to ask is: does birth order shape one’s personality or are we born craving or rejecting parental attention?

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 04:00:49 +0000

In reply to dyannedillon. Yes, we had a lot of fun once I noticed she was there!

By: dyannedillon

dyannedillon — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:27:43 +0000

In reply to shrinkrapped. What a great response!

By: shrinkrapped

shrinkrapped — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 01:31:33 +0000

In reply to wendyj59.

I’m the baby, and the only girl–it was the prime position in my family. One of the funniest moments (at least to me, and I genuinely think to all of us) in my current family came when the girls were clamoring for us to confess which one we liked the best. My husband said, “Actually, we don’t like either one of you very much.”

By: wendyj59

wendyj59 — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:03:58 +0000

Well I have three and my middle child definitely suffered from seeing himself as the middle child, neither first nor the baby just the one inbetween. And I sometimes found myself trying very hard to make things fair until somewhere along the line I realised that as life isn’t fair I was doing them a disservice by not allowing them to experience this. I still try very hard to treat them equally though.