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by Kathy Wolfe Is your personality the result of the chronological place in your family?

Psychologists have had theories on the issue of birth order for decades, and this week, Tidbits studies up on their findings.

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• Renowned Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler was a pioneer in the area of birth order in the early 1900’s, and was one of the first to present theories that family placement affects personality and how individuals deal with life’s issues. He believed that parents tend to treat children differently based on the order of birth.

• Adler’s theory maintained that firstborn children receive an abundance of attention, but only until the second child is born. When a new baby arrives, the first-born may feel unloved, believing he or she has lost the mother’s love to the new baby. Adler called this being “dethroned,” and claimed it had a lasting effect on the individual. The loss of attention might cause the first child to become fearful, high-achieving, anxious, or competitive.

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• The accomplishments of the firstborn, such as walking and talking, are monumental in the eyes of parents and the child is pushed to achieve at a faster pace. First-time parents worry if the child isn’t advancing as they expect and might pressure for success. Parents might push the child to carry out the dreams they had for themselves, and are often harder on first-borns.

• Because first-borns often feel the need to be perfect in everything they do, they are usually well-organized, goal-oriented, and respectful of rules. First-borns tend to become people pleasers, ambitious, and aggressive.

• First-borns dominate the list of Nobel Prize winners, National Merit scholars, and astronauts. A few famous first-borns are Winston Churchill, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, and Harry Truman.

• When a second child arrives, the firstborn often becomes the “helper.” This results in a desire to protect and lead, and they become nurturers and caretakers.

• The behavior of a middle child is often the result of the fact that they have never been “in the spotlight.” Their older sibling seems to be forging ahead with achievements while the younger one is the “entertainer” of the family, making the middle-born feel upstaged, left out, and insecure. The middle child often tries hard to be different from the older sibling.

Because they sometimes feel ignored, they branch out on their own, becoming mentally tough and independent. They develop good social skills as a result, and often turn to their peer group rather than family for support.

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• Adler believed that middle children are more cooperative because they’ve grown up sharing attention. This also makes them more flexible and diplomatic, skills that allow them to thrive in business.

The middles are also frequently good at peacemaking and negotiating – they’re good at seeing both sides of an issue!

Fifty-two percent of U.S. presidents were middle children.

• Because parents start to relax by the second child and become less demanding, middle children tend to have a more relaxed attitude toward life than their older sibling. Some famous middles include David Letterman, Richard Nixon, Madonna, and Princess Diana.

• A recent study indicates that first-born children receive about 3,000 hours more time with parents between age 4 and 13 than their younger siblings. Perhaps this is why first-borns are more pressured to succeed, as parents “loosen up” as more children arrive. Parents also spend less time with each arriving child because they get more proficient at child-rearing tasks.

• The baby of the family is often more pampered than his older siblings. Adler believed this was one of the worst actions of a parent, leading to dependence, selfishness, and irresponsibility. He theorized that babied children easily become manipulative and temperamental.

The youngest child often gets more attention because the older children have grown to different developmental stages and are somewhat independent.

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BIRTH ORDER (continued): • The baby tends to be less responsible and more adventurous, taking part in risky activities and aggressive sports. He is the daredevil of the family. A recent study points out that those major league baseball players who are the youngest are 10 times more likely to steal bases than first-born players.

• The down side of being the baby is that parents often don’t give a lot of attention or praise to the milestones, since tying shoes and riding a two-wheeler for the first time have become “old hat” to them.

• Famous babies of the family include Jim Carrey, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, and Rosie O’Donnell, which makes sense since babies like being center stage and making people laugh.

• An only child has the advantage of receiving all the attention and resources.

This often results in high achievers and better performance on intelligence tests.

Single children learn how to play alone, which can lead to the development of vivid imaginations and fantasies. They also tend to be very close to their parents.

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Fans of the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz will recognize the familiar phrase, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh, my!” uttered by Dorothy. Here is some interesting info about each of Dorothy’s fears.

• Lions are found primarily in Africa, from the southern border of the Sahara down to South Africa. Although we often refer to lions as “King of the Jungle,” they actually dwell in a prairie grassland habitat. They’re the second in size of the “big cats,” after tigers. A male lion is about 10 feet in length, usually weighing between 330 and 550 lbs. Its tail adds another 2 or 3 feet to its length. At its shoulder, an adult lion stands nearly 4 feet tall. Its roar can be heard nearly 5 miles away.

• The cats live in groups called prides, surprisingly, usually led by the females.

A pride might have as many as 40 lions, and the females stay in their mother’s pride their entire lives.

• A lion’s diet is most large animals, such as zebras and wildebeests. The females are the primary hunters in the pride.

• Very vulnerable to extinction, there are only about 3,200 tigers existing in the wild today. In just over 100 years, the world has lost 97% of its wild tigers.

• Whereas the lion is a social animal, tigers are solitary and typically hunt alone. They are massive animals, with the male Siberian tigers weighing up to 660 lbs. When their prey is bagged, the tiger might eat up to 88 lbs. of meat at one time. Their large size doesn’t slow them down, however, as tigers can reach a running speed of up to 40 mph and can swim distances of up to 3.7 miles • White tigers are extremely rare, carrying a gene that is present in just one out of every 10,000 tigers.

• There are eight different species of bears, including brown, black, polar, and pandas. Brown bears are the largest of all, and can weigh up to 2,200 lbs. Polar bears are the second largest species, weighing about 1,500 lbs., and measuring up to 10 feet long. Their thick white coat has nearly 9,700 hairs per square inch. Diet consists mainly of seals and walruses. A polar bear can track down an odor from 20 miles away, and can detect a dead seal under 3 feet of solid ice. Once it captures its prey, the polar bear’s stomach can hold 150 lbs. of meat.

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Beginning months in advance to make the move a gradual process will keep stress to a minimum.

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Declutter: If you had children who moved out without taking all their gear, it all needs to go, either to the child, a charity or the trash. Your own belongings needed to be sorted into categories: definitely keep (heirlooms, expensive jewelry), donations (items in good condition such as clothing and furniture), give to relatives (keepsakes and heirlooms) and throw away (things with no real value that you don’t use). Label your piles and boxes so there are no mistakes with valuable items being thrown away by accident.

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