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Post by kronks on Oct 30, 2017 21:50:25 GMT -5
On another forum someone asked me if I was a middle child! I think it was supposed to be some sort of put down!!  I sort of looked it up and came across "middle child syndrome" Actually they asked Which sounded a bit cheeky to me! sign0020 I am not sure if I qualify as I am a middle brother but I have and older(est) sister. I looked further into it, apparently Bill Gates is a middle child. Also That is quite a statistic I guess especially as you need at least 3 children to be a middle sibling. So maybe there is something in it in that being in the middle you might tend to get over looked as being "nothing special" or whatever? Interestingly Donald Trump is a middle brother with two older sisters. Hillary is the eldest I think. Theresa May is not an a middle she is an only child.( how did I guess!). So quite interesting really, I'd never though about it before. Not all good news though Hitler was middle child but of 6, 3rd boy of 4 with older and younger sister. I guess in the future with a tenancy for smaller families middle siblings will be less common. |
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Post by kronks on Oct 30, 2017 21:56:22 GMT -5
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Post by deyana on Oct 31, 2017 10:20:27 GMT -5
I wouldn't read too much into it, kronks. If anything I would have said you were an only child or the youngest child. I am the youngest of six and mostly brought up alone. I reckon it's more to do with the attitudes of the parents and how they tend to bring up their children, depending on if they are oldest/youngest/middle or only. I do think in many families, kids who are in the middle, tend to get overlooked quite a bit. More reason for a parent to make sure that is not happening. If middle children are more overlooked, two things can happen - they either become more mischievous, just so they get noticed. Or they get more determined, same thing, to get some attention and get noticed. |
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Post by mikemarshall on Oct 31, 2017 17:57:50 GMT -5
Well, I believe that individual families differ in this as they do in every other respect.
I am the youngest of three; my wife is the eldest of three.
Each of us had different upbringings, backgrounds and life experiences before we met one another but I no more assume that being the youngest child was responsible for my own experiences than being the eldest was for my wife's.
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Post by kronks on Oct 31, 2017 19:46:11 GMT -5
I wouldn't read too much into it, kronks . If anything I would have said you were an only child or the youngest child. I am the youngest of six and mostly brought up alone. I reckon it's more to do with the attitudes of the parents and how they tend to bring up their children, depending on if they are oldest/youngest/middle or only. I do think in many families, kids who are in the middle, tend to get overlooked quite a bit. More reason for a parent to make sure that is not happening. If middle children are more overlooked, two things can happen - they either become more mischievous, just so they get noticed. Or they get more determined, same thing, to get some attention and get noticed. No I didn't think too much of it really, it was just that someone mention it so I google "middle child" to see what I could find. I don't think there is much in it really as there are some many other influences involved in growing up, but I thought some of the stuff was quite interesting such as the Presidents thing, however I think families tended to be a lot bigger in the past so I guess there would have been quite a lot of middle children. And of course with me there are 4 of us so there are two middle childs, but I a middle same sex sibling though. It threw up some quite funny stuff though.  It is not something that ever bothered me though, so I can have a good laugh at the jokes!  sign0020 |
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Post by kronks on Oct 31, 2017 20:08:03 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2017 3:57:43 GMT -5
I am am a middle child, and yes i was sort of over looked, but by the other two, i wsn't really included in what they were doing, but it didn't bother me, ina smost though me and my older brother don't really have anything to so with each other
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Post by deyana on Nov 1, 2017 22:35:04 GMT -5
Awww... that's a cute photo. I've seen it before and it always makes me smile  He kind of looks like my middle son too  |
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Post by kronks on Nov 1, 2017 23:22:22 GMT -5
I am am a middle child, and yes i was sort of over looked, but by the other two, i wsn't really included in what they were doing, but it didn't bother me, ina smost though me and my older brother don't really have anything to so with each other Well I as one of four, my sister was the eldest, then my older brother then me then the youngest, so there were kind of two middle children, I was a lot closer to my older brother than the younger or my sister. I guess we had something in common, although he was the oldest boy, but not the oldest child, were were both in the middle in a way. |
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Post by sauerkraut on Nov 2, 2017 13:23:23 GMT -5
I wonder why they call it a "middle child" instead of a "center child"?  89 That old TV show could of been called "Malcom In The Center"! |
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Post by kronks on Nov 2, 2017 14:59:08 GMT -5
I wonder why they call it a "middle child" instead of a "center child"?   That old TV show could of been called "Malcom In The Center"! Or centre if you want to spell it properly!  |
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Post by kronks on Nov 2, 2017 15:19:45 GMT -5
Awww... that's a cute photo. I've seen it before and it always makes me smile He kind of looks like my middle son too I think I had a moment like that growing up, lol, but you are so young you do not really remember much about it. |
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Post by deyana on Dec 15, 2017 23:31:29 GMT -5
I think we all have had moments like that when we were kids!
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Post by kronks on Dec 16, 2017 20:25:04 GMT -5
Mind you I can't imagine my old brother with my younger brother on his knee some how!!!
More of a constant war! sign0020
My older brother ran home form school on his first day, he hate the idea, but I quite looked forward
to going to school.
One memory I have is of the noise of a bout 30 children nattering in the classroom and me with my fingers in
my ears trying to block the racket out.
I also remember whizzing through the reading books.
Mind you I was one of the oldest in my year so it is not surprised I've be a head of some up to 11 months younger.
I also got moved up a year once! They put me in the bottom group at maths there but I was soon in the top one!
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Post by deyana on Dec 17, 2017 19:46:55 GMT -5
You were clever at school then, kronks. Would have to be if you went into engineering. I was quite a bit younger than my siblings.(I have a brother who is 20 years older than me, a sister 18 years older than me, another sister 16 years older than me and so forth). So I sat on a lot of laps! |
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Post by kronks on Dec 17, 2017 21:33:07 GMT -5
Well being about the oldest in my year I had a bit of an advantage really, I mean some were nearly a year younger, I was very close to the cut off point, were I a few weeks older I would have started nearly a year earlier!
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Post by deyana on Dec 31, 2017 15:23:13 GMT -5
Are you glad you didn't? Or would you rather have started a year earlier?
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Post by sauerkraut on Jan 16, 2018 11:39:32 GMT -5
I wonder why they call it a "middle child" instead of a "center child"? That old TV show could of been called "Malcom In The Center"! Or centre if you want to spell it properly! In the USA we spell it as "Center". There are a few other words that are spelled differently in the UK and Canada than they are in the USA. |
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Post by kronks on Jan 16, 2018 23:44:24 GMT -5
Or centre if you want to spell it properly! In the USA we spell it as "Center". There are a few other words that are spelled differently in the UK and Canada than they are in the USA. Yea I sometime get confused over the spelling, centre, center, metre meter etc... There is a huge long debate on it here!! grammarist.com/spelling/center-centre/Example A lot of it is down to fashion. A lot of the Irish have started giving their kids the name spelt in the Irish language, I remember a comedian Dara O Brian joking that even the Irish can't spell them. Mind you he does spell his name Dara Ó Briain. |
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Post by deyana on Jan 28, 2018 16:40:11 GMT -5
So why did the spelling of some words change once the English language came to the USA?  |
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