<p>yes, you will understand if you were one...</p>
<p>the older one is responsible and all adult-ish,</p>
<p>and the younger one is ALWAYS the cute one....</p>
<p>but research as shown that middle children are mostly independent and grow up to be people like CEOs and such....</p>
<p>Middle Children- UNITE!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Haha :) It's not so bad now that I'm older.</p>
<p>I was wondering.. who do all you middle children think you gravitate towards (in friendships and/or relationships)? For me it's only children.</p>
<p>huh? what do you mean by gravitating towards?</p>
<p>I have a middle sister, my boyfriend is a middle child, and my dad is one also.</p>
<p>All of them are quiet and shy. And my sister and my boyfriend (no offense to them) definitely won't become CEOs. My sister is too depressed to even live on her own, and my boyfriend has no faith in himself. I tend to see middle children as very depressed beings.</p>
<p>i guess it has a lot to do with individual personalities. middle children tend to feel under appreciated and unrespected, therefore resulting in depressions and such. however, most of them pass such periods of their lives and soon become independent, though for some those periods may last longer than others. most of it is in the subconcious feeling of wanting to be recognized and appreciated. for most cases the first child and the last child are close, for the former most likely always had the responsibility of taking care of the latter. (sometimes there's an exception when the first and second or the second and third are close in age and can relate to each other well)
and this makes the middle child feel left out again...but he or she usually grows up to be very independent of others, and knows how to look both sides of an issue and such.
another factor that makes middle children independent is that while they don't have any special advantage (i'm old and responsible, i'm young and cute), they don't have to live up to certain expectations. the first children are often raised with the parents' hope of 'being the best', and often suffer great pressure. the youngest one almsot never gets punished and can get away with almost everything- they tend to be spoiled in some cases, though they can sometimes use their ways to make things easier for them. middle children? they can be rebellious but independent. no place in the family is perfect, after all.</p>
<p>i guess i could count as a middle child, i have 2 older sibs and 3 younger. thus i am one of two middle children in my family. it has its ups and downs</p>
<p>I think my siblings and I (just three of us) live up to the stereotypes, but we don't have the negative backlashes... </p>
<p>Both my parents are middle children.</p>
<p>I'm kind of both...my closest older sibling is about five years older, so I was raised as a younger sibling for a while, but I am also an oldest since the older two are out of the picture....as for who I gravitate toward, I don't. I am more of a loner and tend to feel smothered anytime a friendship becomes close.</p>
<p>I'm a middle child but I kinda think I got more attention than my siblings (older sister and younger brother). I was always traveling for tournaments and stuff, so my parents always wanted to go and watch and take me to those, but my sister stayed home and took care of my brother a lot of the time. They're pretty close, and I'm kinda close with my sister but definitely not my brother. He's four years younger than me and bugs the **** out of me. Seriously, we don't get along very well which is pretty sad. I do have a lot of middle child characteristics though, I'm really shy (trying to become more outgoing :)) and pretty independent. My sister hates being the oldest because she always feels like everything she does is good, but than I always one-up her. I don't do it on purpose, but she resents it a lot. My younger brother gets away with so much for being young. Plus, he's the only son in the family so my dad usually favors him.</p>
<p>eh... as for the CEO thing, I heard the opposite. i forget... it was either the firstborn was most likely or oldest and youngest. i could be wrong though</p>
<p>I think I heard it was the oldest, because they are used to bossing people around?</p>
<p>from what i heard, this is what happens:</p>
<p>first children- mostly desk work, though may earn him/her self up by working hard
middle children- things that earn a lot of money and involve creativity and quick response
youngest children- jobs that are pretty easy but dont earn as much.</p>
<p>but then, a middle child (well, he's an adult, but you know what i mean) told me this, so hmph...</p>
<p>I'm a middle child!</p>
<p>I don't think I'm CEO-ish...I'm pretty unpeoplish, if you know what i mean. </p>
<p>If anything, I would have thought the oldest CEO because they generally have the most responsibilty...</p>
<p>that's not so true if you think about what CEOs do. they think of an idea and tell it to his/her workers-it's them who make it come true. creativity's what's most important in these cases.</p>
<p>I'm a middle child!!!!</p>
<p>and my parents make me do everything on my own, while they help my other siblings. maybe i'm CEO material.</p>
<p>Like Marsha Brady! lol
I'm not a middle child though, I'm the youngest out of three... I heard that the youngest is usually the most independent.</p>
<p>that's not true in my family. my younger sister has all kinds of anxiety issues and is dependent on the rest of the fam for everything.</p>
<p>^ so true. although the oldest may be responsible, it doesn't really make them 'independent'...and the youngest ones...isn't it kind of obvious?</p>