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Beyond the Books: (2) Birth Order
Quoted from Kissin Blue Karen
Beyond the Books is a weekly meme where I throw out a topic (mostly non-bookish), and you guys blog about it. Come back here and share the link to your blog post, and we all have fun learning about each other.
This week’s question: Where do you fall in the birth order of your family? First, middle, baby, only? Do you think that affected who you are today?
In my family, I was the oldest, the first born. But, there were 7 years between me and my brother, and then 14 between me and my other brother, so in a sense, I spent the first 7 years of my life as an only child, as well.
Do I think that has shaped who I am today? Hmm. Well, yes, in a sense, it probably has. I do tend to often take on leadership roles. I don’t generally mean to, but they tend to sort of find me whether I intend to or not. I tend to be the one people look to as a mentor in some circles, and I don’t honestly know whether that is a good or a bad thing, but it is what it is.
It very definitely has effected how I relate to my own children. I have three of my own. I try not to put the same pressures on my own oldest child, though I am sure that sometimes I fall into the same pitfalls that all parents do of reminding the oldest that they are to be the example to their younger siblings, et cetera.
What about you? How has where you fell in the birth order in your family effected who you are today?
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