Your place in the family..

Dreamcatcher

I am the eldest of four and I sometimes wonder if I would have turned out differently if I'd been in the middle, or was the youngest..
Anyone else feel the same way, or have any opinion about your place in your family?

azezil

Middle child, ignored.

RuggieBear

azezil wrote:

Middle child, ignored.

explains alot....

rainbow kirby

Eldest of 3.

Matthewthebig

elder of 2

handy in one way as i have nothing to be compared too

azezil

RuggieBear wrote:

explains alot....

2 older sisters... role models?
could explain the dress wearing

Chinafoot

youngest of three girls.

Flukey

5th of 5.

Creamy Goodness

youngest of 5

bounty_hunter

Eldest of two, bitter about the way in which my younger sibling just slides easily into the standards I've already created and bypasses all the lectures and punishments I received.

mp3guy

middle child, in between to girls.... bitches....

Crucifix

Youngest of three.

Queenie05*

bounty_hunter wrote:

Eldest of two, bitter about the way in which my younger sibling just slides easily into the standards I've already created and bypasses all the lectures and punishments I received.

I feel very much the same way bounty_hunter! I was the eldest of 4, and I very much paved the way..
The younger siblings had it easier, and turned out to be me more well-adjusted adults. Coz I rebelled around the age of 12 and made my parents cop on and gave them tips on how to be a good parent!!

Zaph

Eldest of five. Was a pretty poor role model for the others as none of them copped on to the fact that I did all my misbehaving out of sight of my parents so only ended up in a fraction of the sh*t that they found themselves in. Of course they could all just be incredibly thick...

RobertFoster

Only child. Lonely.

Dingatron

bounty_hunter wrote:

Eldest of two, bitter about the way in which my younger sibling just slides easily into the standards I've already created and bypasses all the lectures and punishments I received.

2nd of 6. (Bad sheep) I can relate to that. These young 'uns get away with murder. Don't know how good they have it etc etc.

mokeymokey

eldest of 1 brother and two half-sisters the brother i just want to kill

the_syco

mp3guy wrote:

middle child, in between to girls.... bitches....

Likewise.

bug

youngest of five

entropi

Eldest of 3, younger sis & bro.

Role in the family : Peacemaker and Advisor[ for someone who's only 24 :eek: ]

Mossy Monk

slap bang in the middle of 5

eldest son

Queenie05*

Mossy Monk wrote:

eldest son

Eldest son in my family was and is spoilt rotten, and today he is the typical "can do nothing for himself boy". He lives at home - he's 25 - and will probably - like my father - live in the house forever.
He seems to expect as if it's written in stone(I'm not sure myself, and I don't really care) - in the family tradition - that he will inherit the house.

Ok, he works every day, never is off sick, and works hard, long hours, but at the end of the day it's a given that his dinner will be ready for him, all his laundry is done for him etc. etc.

He dates a lot of women, even though he isn't really that into some of them. I wonder will he find the 1950's type potential wife that would suit him - in this day and age..? Hmmm.... I suspect that he won't in the forseeable future at least - and the blame lies squarely with my mother!

pwd

I did an online test that asked you things about your personality and then said what place you came in the familiy. It correctly said that I was the youngest child. So I guess I am a reasonably typical youngest child.

Rhyme

Middle of 2 and the only guy... bah

Mossy Monk

Queenie05* wrote:

Eldest son in my family was and is spoilt rotten, and today he is the typical "can do nothing for himself boy". He lives at home - he's 25 - and will probably - like my father - live in the house forever.
He seems to expect as if it's written in stone(I'm not sure myself, and I don't really care) - in the family tradition - that he will inherit the house.

i am also 25 but don't live at home, not spoilt. i would like the family home but it is being split between all siblings fair though

you were just unlucky, i'm the best eldest son there ever was

Goodshape

2nd of 4. Three sisters.
I've been told I got away with stuff.. I don't remember it like that.

ixoy

Eldest of two and the only son. Only a two year displacement between us so no real preferential treatment for anybody, thankfully other than we always got the same pocket money so my sister got more than I did at her age, et cetera...

Queenie05*

Mossy Monk wrote:

i am also 25 but don't live at home, not spoilt. i would like the family home but it is being split between all siblings fair though

you were just unlucky, i'm the best eldest son there ever was

Sorry Mossie, I did not mean to imply that I was generalising. Just stating my own experience.

I also have another brother who is 2 years younger than that brother, and they are "chalk and cheese". They were raised by the same parents...

The point of my post, from my own point of view at least, is that your place in the family - eldest, youngest, eldest girl, eldest boy can in my experience, going by my own family, and other families that I know, have a profound influence on the child and the teenager and the adult that they become..

Mossy Monk

i just set a high standard for eldest sons everywhere

RopeDrink

Middle of two and a half sisters.

My youngest sister is a raving lunatic that I have little time for, my half-sisters been missing for half a decade.

Little time for any of my family, to be honest, except for my father and sister.

derek27

ages and sex of my huge family...
36f 34m 33m 31m 29m 28m<thats me! 25f 22f 15f... mam and dad still with us, and not forgetting 4m < my son

doctor evil

Youngest of five.

Funk Daddy

Eldest of 2.

RobertFoster

pwd wrote:

I did an online test that asked you things about your personality and then said what place you came in the familiy. It correctly said that I was the youngest child. So I guess I am a reasonably typical youngest child.

Do you remember the link at all?

Roar

eldest of three (two sisters), but my mum and dad now have families with other people, so i've five half brothers and sisters altogether now..

people tell me i;m both my parents favourite, but i dont really see it

_blank_

Eldest of Three.

squrm

Middle of 3 & the oldest male

Bit of an age gap to junior & hence he's spoilt rotten.

little sh*t

Stark

Eldest of 3. The other two are spoilt rotten also.

Flashling

Middle of three, only girl. It sucks, because when my Mom's away, I get "Mom said you have to make the dinner/do the ironing/clean the kitchen, for I don't know how."

So...much...rage...

snorlax

youngest of three

Ruaidhri

youngest of 5, two bro's, two sisters. the middle brother is the typical i cant do a damn thing myself, need a girlfriend to cook,clean,look after ( dont they call this mammy replacement? ). me personally, i can take care of myself, am not spoiled and i'd presume i'm pretty well rounded

arbeitsscheuer

Youngest of 7.
That's SEVEN.

Spoilt/Ignored in equal measure. I am a disappointment (cos all the rest set a pretty high standard IMO).

NotMe

Eldest of five. The things those feckers get away with that I would have got in sh*t over. :rolleyes:

bounty_hunter

Queenie05* wrote:

I feel very much the same way bounty_hunter! I was the eldest of 4, and I very much paved the way..
The younger siblings had it easier, and turned out to be me more well-adjusted adults. Coz I rebelled around the age of 12 and made my parents cop on and gave them tips on how to be a good parent!!

Sucks, doesn't it?
What pisses me off most is that the younger sibling is an unpleasant little bastard and it's passed off as "normal adolescent behaviour", whereas with me it would have been cause for a good slapping.

Mossy Monk

Flashling wrote:

Middle of three, only girl. It sucks, because when my Mom's away, I get "Mom said you have to make the dinner/do the ironing/clean the kitchen, for I don't know how."

So...much...rage...

tell them to **** off or confront your mother. confrontation would sort it out

Guzzler

Youngest of 4. Being the youngest is the worst, the older ones try to have a say in everything I do like what career to choose, school to go to. Its gone to the stage where I don't tell them anyhting I'm doing like exams results because good or bad they'll have an opinion.

Waltons

Spoilt only child

Rabies

Eldest of 7

monkeyfudge

I'm the deformed child they keep locked in the attic and feed a bucket of fish heads to once a week.

bopper

I'm the oldest of three, but I was an only child for 13 years so I'm a spoilt ****.

Badly Drunk Boy

Second of five (but beloved).

I'm also Godfather of the fifth of the five.