Your place in the family..

Dreamcatcher · 01-08-2005 12:14AM #1

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 · 01-08-2005 12:16AM

Middle child, ignored.

RuggieBear · 01-08-2005 12:17AM

azezil wrote:

Middle child, ignored.

explains alot....

rainbow kirby · 01-08-2005 12:18AM

Eldest of 3.

Matthewthebig · 01-08-2005 12:20AM

elder of 2

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

azezil · 01-08-2005 12:23AM

RuggieBear wrote:

explains alot....

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

Chinafoot · 01-08-2005 12:28AM

youngest of three girls.

Flukey · 01-08-2005 12:31AM

5th of 5.

Creamy Goodness · 01-08-2005 12:36AM

youngest of 5

bounty_hunter · 01-08-2005 12:37AM

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 · 01-08-2005 12:38AM

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

Crucifix · 01-08-2005 12:40AM

Youngest of three.

Queenie05* · 01-08-2005 12:44AM

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 · 01-08-2005 12:44AM

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 · 01-08-2005 12:54AM

Only child. Lonely.

Dingatron · 01-08-2005 12:59AM

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 · 01-08-2005 01:01AM

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

the_syco · 01-08-2005 01:02AM

mp3guy wrote:

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

Likewise.

bug · 01-08-2005 01:03AM

youngest of five

entropi · 01-08-2005 01:30AM

Eldest of 3, younger sis & bro.

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

Mossy Monk · 01-08-2005 01:54AM

slap bang in the middle of 5

eldest son

Queenie05* · 01-08-2005 02:17AM

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 · 01-08-2005 02:31AM

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 · 01-08-2005 02:38AM

Middle of 2 and the only guy... bah

Mossy Monk · 01-08-2005 02:41AM

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 · 01-08-2005 02:49AM

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

ixoy · 01-08-2005 02:54AM

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* · 01-08-2005 02:58AM

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 · 01-08-2005 04:23AM

i just set a high standard for eldest sons everywhere

RopeDrink · 01-08-2005 05:12AM

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 · 01-08-2005 05:26AM

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

Your place in the family..

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