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The effects of birth order on our children’s personality are pretty amazing.  I never used to believe this before I had multiple children, but I see proof in the effects almost on a daily basis.  Is it because of what we expect out of our children or is it truly because of their birth order?

I am always expecting my oldest to help me out.  Does this mold her personality into someone who wants to be a team player or am I driving her away from ever wanting to be a mother herself?  I don’t mean to have such high expectations from her but as the oldest I want her to set the best example.  From the very beginning of bringing her little brother home, I wanted her to be a part of helping take care of him.  She wasn’t even two years old and I was asking her to help bring mommy a diaper and teaching her how to swaddle her baby doll.  These were just things that I wanted to do to help her adapt to not being the only child in the family.  I wanted to make her feel important but was I really changing her personality? 

I wanted to make her feel important but was I really changing her personality?

When I go back and think about what I did when my third child was born, I am a little shocked.  Again, I expected some help from my daughter who at that time was not even three and a half years old.  The expectations were not much but were there none the less.  However, my first son was only 16months old and I didn’t expect anything from him.  I didn’t obviously ask him to get involve in the care of his new baby brother and to him it seemed like nothing changed in his life.  He was still the same child he had always been.

My last child ( I am not going to lie he was a great baby) but has given me a run for my money as he turned into the 3-4 years of age.  He is a dare devil that wants to make sure I know every little thing that he does.  Is this because he is the baby or because he knew he was such a good baby and wants to keep me on my toes now?

To see all characteristics of each birth order, I found this article pretty interesting: www.birthorderandpersonality.com.  See what you find in common with your family.

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