Birth Order

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

Just curious about your birth order..which dz.commers are an only child? the youngest? or oldest amongst their siblings?

Also, if you care to share, how many siblings do you have and how differently (if at all) have you been treated vs. the other sibling(s). For example, is there sibling rivalry?

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[AggieDave 6]

I'm an only child. I don't feel like I was spoiled too much, although there is obviously a bit of spoiling since my folks didn't have to feed/clothe/ect other children.

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[adamjenner 0]

second kid of two
only 1 year difference though. i was the "unplanned" kid.

[SarahC07 0]

middle child and the only girl.... I find, honestly, that being the only girl helps me out... especially with my dad

[CrazyIvan 0]

FIRST BORN!!!

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[FlyingJ 0]

I am the oldest of four. Had a much more strict childhood than the other three, which were progressively less strict for each one (to be expected)!

In high school I was grounded if I walked into the house at 12:00:01am. On the other hand my sister (youger by 8 years) was just told to get the car home in one piece, and if she was drinking to call for a ride.

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[Squeak 17]

I don't quite fit any catagory
I'm the youngest from Mums 1st marriage, then after I grew up mum had my lil sister with her 2nd hubby. So my sis was raise pretty much as an only child .
So with my 2 older brothers and older sister am I the youngest (in my first family) or middle child in both

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[windcatcher 0]

I'm the middle child, have one older sister and an older brother, one younger sis and one younger bro...my mom definitely gave us older kids more freedom, she still nags my younger sister! but I Loooove her so much!!!
Sarah

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[hooked 0]

I am the 'youngest' of twins and we had two older sisters, that from the first family. Then it starts to get complicated because both parents remarried and had other children. So how does that figure in the birth order? I imagine it only figures in the family you grew up with, so then I'm not the youngest since I lived with my father who remarried and had three more children.

J

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[CrazyIvan 0]

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Then it starts to get complicated because both parents remarried and had other children

I can imagine those arguments: Honey!!!, your children and my children are bothering our children

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[jtval 0]

2nd of two. he's 3 years older

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[flygirl03 0]

First born.
Brother 2 years younger.
Sister 5 years younger.
Brother 12 years younger.

Sibling rivalary?? No.
We are not a Close family in that we live in the same small town and never see each other, however, if any one of us needs another for any reason... we are right there.

The worst part about being the oldest was they never let me do anything... my baby brother got away with everything... he was very spoiled.. still is

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[DrunkMonkey 0]

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...In high school I was grounded if I walked into the house at 12:00:01am. On the other hand my sister (youger by 8 years) was just told to get the car home in one piece, and if she was drinking to call for a ride.

Yeah, no shit. For me it was 1030/1130. 1 minute was an ass-kicking. For lil sis (5yrs younger), she got "before sunrise..."

Then again, she went thru rehab shortly thereafter, and I didn't (need to)....

[Sheenster303 0]

I am the baby of the family. My brother is 13 years older and my sister is 7 years older. Both my brother and my sister were adopted and I was the only child my parents were able to conceive. So "technically" I'm an only child, but I've never ever thought of myself that way. I've always been the youngest and the most spoiled. I was allowed to do things a lot earlier than my brother and sister, but the downside is that my parents watched me like a hawk.

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Then it starts to get complicated because both parents remarried and had other children

I can imagine those arguments: Honey!!!, your children and my children are bothering our children

I don't even want to go there.

J

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[ACMESkydiver 0]

First born.

I have a sister that is 2 1/2 years younger than me and a younger brother who is 4 1/2 years younger.

I was a real hell-raiser! -welll, until my brother came along and redefined the word...

Our sister was always the perfect . Grrrr!

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[Evelyn 0]

I am the oldest of 3 kids. My brother and sister and their families live within a mile of my parents, while I'm 150 miles away. I visit once a month but my parents are more connected to my brother and sister and their families since they are so close. I've kind of jelous because my parents bought houses for my brother and sister and only bought me a jumpsuit.

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[GravityGirl 0]

Where is #5 out of 6?

That's me.

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[wingnut 0]

i'm second in the buy one get one free deal of twins...... my sister never lets me forget that she is two minutes older than me.........

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

I'm the "baby," the fourth of four.

brother Paul, 1962
sister Jessica, 1965
sister Elizabeth, 1970
me, 1971

There was never any real sibling rivalry at all. You can see that my brother is 9 years older than I am, but for me and my sisters, he was always a good big brother, taking us out and including us in stuff. I have great memories of him taking us out to laser rock shows at the planetarium, or going inner-tubing in the surf at the Hamptons. He was responsible for us getting what was my first dog when I was in 2nd grade. His friend's girlfriend had a dog that had a litter, and Paul brought us all over there to visit them, and he picked the only completely white puppy of them all and brought it to our house, campaigning to our parents to let us keep him.
So even though there were so many years between us, Paul and I were kind of like drawstrings that closed the four of us up tighter. He and I even lived together for two years from 1997-'99 down here in Florida.

My parents were always very liberal with us, allowing us to go out and explore things for ourselves. They had a leash on us, but it was very loose and it was not really ever possible to get to where it choked us. I think they did a really good job raising us, all around. I remember having freedom, but also guidance. When I got my driver's license, the very next month they let me drive with friends from L.I. to Boston. "Just call us when you get there so we know you got in okay." When I was a sophomore in college, 1991, I told them I wanted to skydive, and all they did was get ask me to put it off for a week so they could write me a life insurance policy. Then as a senior, they let me (and paid for me to) go spend a semester in England.

So to cap it all, my brother's wife gave birth yesterday to their first baby, a girl, on my birthday!
Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

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[peacefuljeffrey 0]

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I am the oldest of four. Had a much more strict childhood than the other three, which were progressively less strict for each one (to be expected)!

I think this is how it was with my family. My brother broke a lot of ground for the rest of us, but they weren't even really that strict with him. But when he went to college, they had him pay for it. By the time the rest of us went, Mom and Dad had decided it was something that they would pay for. (They both had gone to college, too, but they married before Mom finished.)

I think that once they realized that they had four really smart, mature, heads-up kids, they were able to let us do what we wanted with little worry that we'd screw anything up really bad.

Blue skies,
-Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[mnealtx 0]

5th of 6....

My little sister (the baby) was INCREDIBLY spoiled....

Mike
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[vt1977 0]

Only child!
Vicki

[smiles 0]

birth order:
brother
sister
me

all 1 yr. apart, Mom raised us on her own- (mother was oldest daughter- Grandma had 18 kids back on the farm.) Now- there was a huge family with loads of sibling rivalry To this day my mother carries on with the rivalry between 7 sisters/ 10 brothers.

My brother was my hero, (Mr. responsibility from the get go) my sister was a slow learner which caused much frustration. She was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Kathy was treated differently of course and got majority of attention as she was disabled. I continued to care for the sweetheart until her death last year. (Hep C- cirrohosis of the liver)
Sibling rivalry?....nope. Insecurity- yup

SMiles

[cocheese 0]

Last born . Brother is 3 yrs older. The squeeky wheel got the grease.Him.
Rivalry ended when i was finally able to beat his ass for a change when i was about 16 years old.
There is a Birth Order Book.
Says 2 first borns or 2 last borns may not get along as well as one of each etc.