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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. Follow along and see if you agree with their conclusions! • Renowned Austrian psychiatrist Alfred Adler was a pioneer in the area of birth order in the early 1900s, 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 first-born 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. He might have a need to retain praise from parents and become prone to perfectionism, making him vulnerable to stress.

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BIRTH ORDER (continued): • The accomplishments of the first-born, 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.

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• 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 first-born 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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BIRTH ORDER (continued): • 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.

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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. • A recent study indicates that being raised with siblings makes for more healthy relationships later in life. The American Sociological Association says that the more siblings you have, the better your chance of a long and happy marriage, since you’ve developed skills in conflict negotiation and personality clashes. The research points to a reduction in the likelihood of divorce by 2% per sibling. Which child is the least likely to get married? Studies indicated that would be the only child.

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• 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.

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• White tigers are extremely rare, carrying a DEERE. DEERE. gene that isJOHN present in just (continued): one out of every • 10,000 It was tigers. while living in Illinois that John noticed the problems that farmers faced when • There are eight species attempting to tilldifferent soil. Because the of areabears, had including black, polar, andwas pandas. formerly brown, been woodland, the soil rich Brown bears arewhich the largest all, clung and can with hummus, clumpedofand to the blades the plows were are accusweigh up toof2,200 lbs. farmers Polar bears the tomed tolargest using. While repairing a brokenabout cirsecond species, weighing cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He 1,500 lbs., and measuring up to 10 feet long. employed smith skills the9,700 steel Their thickhiswhite coat to hasfashion nearly blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed hairs per square inch. Diet consists mainly wooden spokes, then hitched the device oftwo seals and walruses. A polar bear can track to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil down an odor from 20 miles away, and can like a charm. In fact, a farmer who happened detect dead seal 3 feet of solid put ice. to be aobserving theunder test run immediately Once it captures its prey, the polar bear’s in an order for his own John Deere plow. stomach can hold 150 lbs. of meat. • In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith • About 1,000focused to 2,000 pandas in shop and on giant making plows.live The the wilds of China today. birth, the emcub company grew steadily andAt added many ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the weighs just 5 oz., but will grow to about entire Illinois. Ashamed 330 lbs.operation Its diet to is Moline, almost entirely bamboo, of his own lack of education, John sent his about 45 lbs. a day. children to the state’s finest schools. One of • It’s wise days to tryoccurred to out-run bear.Charles Some hisnot proudest whena son bears can up to 40 mph. Compare this earned therun equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s toCommercial the pace ofCollege Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, in Chicago. the fast human alive, who can run 27 mph. • With his son Charles managing the company,

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• The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Africa. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was replaced with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that followed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand. Information in the Tidbits® Paper is gathered from sources considered to be reliable, but the accuracy of all information cannot be guaranteed.

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