Birth Order
This week I read the article that our English teacher gave us in the English class. The article talked about the influence of your birth order in your life.
According to the article, the older child tries to suppress the view of himself as a child and he becomes more parental than the rest of siblings.
The middle child has more freedom than his older sibling because parents are more relaxed. In addition, he has two options when he needs help, his parents and his siblings.
The younger child is the less responsible and he tends to think he is always protected.
I know this article is a general idea about family but now, there are too many kinds of families to generalize.
These are some examples to tell you what I mean. For instance, when there is a gap in years between younger child and the rest of siblings, he becomes as an only child because he is surrounded by adults all his childhood.
Sometimes, the only child becomes an adult as if he were an older sibling, so he needs to grow up quickly to help his family or to help himself.
There are cases where the middle sibling has a big problem of jealousy or he is more parental than his older sibling.
In conclusion, our birth order is important in our lives but our charater depends on our family situations .
posted by Maia @ 11:38 AM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Wouldn't you think that the world surrounding you, not only brothers, sisters and parents is also important? I, myself think that I had other elements apart from my family that influenced me and I am talking when I was a child!
I'm agree with Still Acer, and I think that it is important the date of birth, too. A final-year-brith child needs more parental protection than the begin-year-birth child, and that fact will condition also his/her relationships with brothers and family. Also in class (where a boy spends lots of time)he/she will be conditioned! There are too many factors, aren't they? It is complicated!
Well, probably it is a general article about families but this article describes perfectly my family. I’ m the youngest one in my family (I have one brother and one sister) and I haven´t been as controlled as my elder sister. My brother, probably because he was the first one, has always enjoyed about total freedom. Not my sister who always has had to accept she was a woman and she cannot go out with the same freedom as my brother. But that control over my sister did not affected me. I have, probably, a stronger character and my parents has always look at me like the black sheep of the family so after some arguments at the beginning they though I was a hopeless case.
Maia, what happens in my comment? Virginia told me that there is some mistake in it, and that you could explain it to me. Please, I need to know. Thanks!
Hi Maia, nice piece of writing. You handle the language quite well but there are a few things I’d say in a different way.
You say:
-gave us in English class
-he always is protected
-These are some examples for telling you what I mean. For instance, when there are several years between younger child and the rest of siblings, he becomes as a only child because he is rounded by adults all his childhood.
-our charater depends on our situations families.
Your should say:
-gave us in THE English class
-he is always protected (W.O.)
-These are some examples TO tell you what I mean. For instance, when there is a gap in years between a younger child and the rest of the siblings, he becomes as aN only child because he is surrounded by adults all his childhood.
-our charaCter depends on our family situations.
Please, notice the differences and correct your text. Thanks,
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