Blog 10: Cat Pratice 3

Sometimes your family sees a different role in which you should play in depending on whether or not you the only sibling. In the article “How Your Birth Order Influences our Life Adjustment” explains the whole concept of that. It indicates the position that should be required regarding the position that you in, being the only, oldest, middle or even the youngest child. I strongly agree with the passage when it stated “The other members of the family assume certain attitudes toward each in terms of his birth order.”

Take my older sister for example, meaning that she’s the oldest of three, my mother require way more from her than the other two. Being that I’m the youngest, I’m not all that accountable for much. My mother sees her more responsible and capable to a lot of things. My middle sister actually does look up to our older sister for advice. It’s some things that my oldest had to learn on her own because she didn’t have anyone else to turn to but she knew she had to teach us because she was the oldest.

Being the middle child is way easier. You are capable of doing things way belter because you way more experience than your youngest sibling and also you have a clear understanding on what’s expected because your older sibling inform on it. Meaning that you are the middle child, you had a guide through things that seem blurry o you at first. Also knowing that someone looks up to you, just how you did to the oldest is a perfect feeling just because you could teach them something’s that the oldest didn’t or did taught you.

Being the youngest is way more to it than what other people expect depending on your family. But from my experience, even though I’m a fast learning and had the easy past to basically everything, I still took the hard way out. I did a thing that wasn’t supposed to do even though I knew I was going to get in trouble. That didn’t matter because seeing things on my own pays off. Being the youngest, they don’t expect a lot from you because you not quite experience but you are getting there. And having things laid out to go that route sometimes won’t work for you.

Being the oldest and being the only child somewhat have something in common, there’s no one to turn to. But being the oldest is way better because someone is looking up to you. So there’s some goals you will have to set, not just for yourself but for your siblings. You are now becoming a role model. And for each birth order, there are some positions to be played and that’s the most important part.