Did you know that where you fall in your family’s birth-order hierarchy helps shape your personality and plays a significant role in your relationship? Your personality is directly related to how you interact with other people, since the first people you interacted with were your parents and siblings. Here’s what you need to know about birth order types—and how they mix, match, mesh or clash.
First Borns
These children tend to be conscientious, ambitious, organized and, in relationships, dominant. “Firstborns like to be in control.” As with all birth-order positions, gender plays a role, too. In the case of firsts, oldest sons tend to be take-charge types, leaders. Oldest females, on the other hand, are more likely to be bossy, confident and aggressive than their younger sisters.
Middle borns
Middle children are the least defined of the types (there can only be one eldest and one baby, but middles shift depending on how many there are in the whole family). That said, they can be predictable in the best sense of that word. As a general rule, middles tend to be good at compromise—a skill valuable to them as they negotiated between bossy older sibs and needy younger ones. However, some middle children (probably for the same reasons as above) can be secretive.
Last Borns
Ah, the little sibs of the family. Beloved, treasured, and in many cases babied for much longer than their older siblings (and often by their older siblings), the stereotypical youngest of the brood tends to be less responsible and more devil-may-care, with less of a hankering to take charge. “That can be different if the baby of the family came after a gap of more than a few years, though,” In that case, the baby of the family may act more like an only child or an older sibling—as though the family had started all over again.
Only Children
The stereotype about only children is that they are pampered and precious, and thus will have trouble ceding the spotlight to anyone. But that doesn’t describe every only child. In fact, many only children act a lot like firstborns. They tend to be responsible as well as mature. In fact, many “grow up” more quickly than kids with sibs, thanks to how much time they spend with adults.
Source: Indgirl.com