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Are you an Oldest Child, Middle Child, Youngest Child or Only Child?
How do you like being in that position explain

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I'm a middle child, and I think that it's really hard. It's when you're a teenager is the worst. Mainly because the parents get slightly overprotective of you because they don't want to make the same mistakes that they made with your older sibling with you. Also, if your younger sibling is in their adolescence...they tend to be treated "better" and with more attention. =D So you're kind of stuck in the middle and don't really know what to do about it.
I honestly don't find many problems being the middle child. I like it sometimes, but every kid has issues with their status in the family. =)
Good thread, Scott!
--d0ri

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I'm the oldest, and its tough sometimes because you're the example and can't really make any misteps. Also, you're the guinea pig for the parents. :rolleyes:

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I'm the oldest of four, and have three sisters. I dont think being oldest is too bad, but there are definately some drawbacks. Parents kind of "learn" parenting on you, so there are some "experimental" treatments. There's also more pressure to not make any mistakes, because you have to set an example. Many personal choices that you make are scrutinized by your parents because "You're setting that example for your younger siblings." Just my $.02

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HAHA-youngest and i get treated the best lol-its probably the easiest-because your parents now know how to treat you, from their mistakes, and they tend to be more leniant because the older siblings are doing something, so they just let you go along.
Definitely no complaints.

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I'm the older one. "1 of 2" as my dad sometimes calls me. My brother is going to be 21 is less than a month.

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I'm the oldest, but there are only 2 of us. My little* brother and I are very different, so I don't know how effective of a 'guinea pig' I am for my parents. :p For the most part though, my parents treat us exactly the same concerning privleges and freedom at certain ages.

*(I'm a senior, my bro is in 8th grade- He has a good 6 inches on me)

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I'm an only child. For the most part, being an only child isn't that bad. The only real problem is that when I was younger, other kids assumed I always got everything i wanted which was never true. Also when something broke in the house, i never had anyone else to blame it on.

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I have one older brother. He's on 1293 as well, and was at Palmetto.

He and I have the same kind of dry humor, except that he doesn't apply it nearly as much as I do (and often to his benefit).

The funny thing is that both of us work at Piggly Wiggly, so now we mooch everything off of each other. Shirts, name tags...it's funny.

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I'm the oldest, with Andy-Roo being my younger brother and only sibling. He's 15.

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I'm the older of 2.

Young James is going into his second year at Columbia University. Last I checked he's majoring in Political Science and Economics.

Don't worry folks.
He got all the brains of the family. ;)

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i'm the older-middle child of six. one younger brother, one older and one younger step-sister, and a younger half-brother and -sister.

i like to think that my large family makes me a better team player. :p

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I was an only child for 12 years. My parents got divorced when I was 5 or 6 and then my dad remarried and had kids.

I have a sister who will be 13 this year and a brother who just turned 11.

Both of them are already showing interest in joining the robotics team when they get older. I already let my brother walk with us during this year's memorial day parade, and he wore a shirt from nationals 2002 that I won on e-bay that was too small for me.. lol

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I'm the second oldest out of 6. (All girls and 1 boy, but its okay though he's the oldest). I like my position. My brother is the guinea pig. Other then that though I don't really notice any different treatment between me and some of my sisters and brother. There is some but that’s only because they age range between us. My brother was entering college when my youngest sister was entering kindergarten.

It’s great. My parents are really involved in FIRST and it works great with the school. I just graduated from high school and one of my sisters (Angie) was there this year. So we easily kept up with FIRST. She's going to be a senior this year though. When she graduates my next sister (Emily) will be starting her freshmen year. ^_^ Then there are two more coming. We'll have a person in high school for the next 10 years straight. So you'll be seeing my family in FIRST for a long time. ^_^

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Hang on, this gets kinda confusing.

Summarizing the details below, I have 2 brothers, 1 half brother, 1 half sister, 4 step brothers and 3 step sisters. 7 are older than me and 4 are younger.

Two older brothers (both older, @ 39 and 37):
The eldest was high school valedictorian, basketball star and church youth group president. He got married, went to seminary, had two kids, and works in the business world and as a counselor.
The middle brother was high school saludictorian, taught high school english, got married, had two kids (one is Austistic), and is a professor at Tenn. Tech. University. He and his wife both have their doctorate degrees in education.

Needless to say, following these two dudes was (and is) not easy.

My half brother is 23, and half sister is 21. One step sister is 41, one is 37, and one is 34. One step brother is 38, one is 36, one is 35, and one is 34. Three steps and the two halfs are on one side of the family (dad's) while the other 4 steps are are the other side (mom's - this is the hog farmin' side of the family).

My wife is a saint. Having two sets of in-laws for her has to be hard to manage. My kids don't know all of their cousins, aunts and uncles. Holidays are chaotic. All of the family (either side) is never together at the same time, even at weddings. It is pretty ridiculus, but we have gotten used to it.

Confused? It took me a while to figure out too.

Andy B.

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My older brother is also on my team, and we both also work at a grocery store (Shaw's). However, as I'm smaller than him, we haven't really been able to trade shirts, but when the pinback came off of my nametag, he gave me a clip to use instead. We also share a similar sense of humor. We get along a lot better than when we were kids, and it's great.

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One older brother---21, going on Senior year of College.

One older sister---18, going on Sophmore year of College.

Me---15, going on Junior year of High School.

One younger brother---8, going on 3rd Grade.

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Middle. I have a sister (5 years older), and two brothers (1 and 1/2 years older and 2 years younger). By the time we were in our teens my sister was the pretty, smart, popular one, I was the quiet bookworm, and my brothers were always in trouble. Between dealing with my sister's activities and achievements and cleaning up my brothers' messes, my parents were overwhelmed and I was pretty much allowed to come and go as I pleased.

Heidi

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Middle Child

Sister Jamie - 21
Me Michael - 19
Brother James -15

yes i am the odd one out

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Boy could my kids relate.

Personally I'm the youngest of twins. My twin, 6 minutes older than I, was considered mean by everyone around us til she made some friends in high school. She always resented my having friends thruout school.

There were 3 sets of twins in high school with us. There was always an introvert, and an extrovert, in my opinion.

I have 4 kids ages 16-31. I have 2 stepkids, by different moms. 1 is age 13. 1 is 18. My kids dad married a woman with 4 kids. My adult son married a single mom. My 12yo stepgranddaughter is best friends with my 13yo stepdaughter. I have 6 grandkids altogether.

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Oldest of 3. My sister is 13 and my brother is 8.

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Youngest of 2......Ogre is my older brother
Its nice, although we're so close with one side of my family, its like i have 6 older brothers (im the only girl on that side, and the youngest)

My parents had parenting boys down by my age between all my cousins and my brother, then BAM a girl, it's been interesting, I do a lot more school activties and outing with friends than my brother did, like freshman and sophmore year, i'd ask how late i could be out, and my parents weren't quite sure how to answer. They were like, what? go out? Its been a bit different, but a lot of fun. I was the guinea pig girl, so i was ALWAYS in dresses as a young child, by the time i was about 9 or 10, i was sick of it and didn't wear them for a good year or so.:D But we're back to normal now. Being the youngest is fun, although my parents have set different standards between me and my brother, sometimes that's no fun, cuz they know it, and when i go "but Jeffrey go to" they get to say "well you're not jeff are you??"

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Oldest of 2. My brother isn't in FIRST (yet :yikes: )

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Im the youngest .. I have an older brother who is 18 and has just graduated from high school and is moving to Ireland for university next year ...
I like being youngest because there are some benefits and you do get treated a bit differently, that being said, I HATE being youngest because there are soo many double standards. Maybe its just in my family, but I know that my brother was allowed to do much more when he was 16 than I am now. And I know that if I try to do the things he is doing now at 18 when I am 18, I will still get in trouble, even though I will have moved out ...

It is funny because my brother and I have never been really close, and there were times (apart from build-season) where we said literally 10 words to each other for about a week and a half ... but now that he is moving in September, we have become closer .. and despite all of our fights (both verbal and physical) I am going to miss him once he is gone ...

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Just like Andy B. my siblings are something to contend with...

2 older sisters...

Carolyn - 9th in a graduating class of 400. Notre Dame Grad with a > 3. something GPA. Electrical Engineer. Dial Corp. in Chicago. age: 23 (don't even try!)

Christina - 18th in a graduating class of 420. Attends Vanderbilt. Freshman year GPA 3.5. (OMG she is killing me!!!). 19 (I'll kill you!)

Ben (me) - 55 in a graduating class if 390. Attending Rose-Hulman IT, No Classes taken, 18.

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I am the oldest of four.

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I know I've already posted (I'm cheating), but after reading Andy's chaos, I thought I'd post a bit of my own.

My parents are both the youngest of four. They each have three older sisters, comparable in age. Out of their three sisters each, the two older have kids, the youngest does not. All are married. In total, I have nine aunts - six from my parents, two great aunts, and one by marriage.

When I got to college, my roommate's name was Amanda. She was the youngest of four, and had three older sisters.

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I'm the oldest of two. I have a younger sister. She's never been involved with the team but has showed up at some of our teams' fundraisers to support us.

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I am the oldest of 2. My sister turns 8 on Aug 2 and I turn 17 on Oct 6. Kinda a big split in age... it makes getting out of the house inconvenient since someone always has to watch her.

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I'm the younger of two, almost 16, and my brother is 17. It's an odd combination, but we work well because we're opposites. I've found that depending on your personality, your parents treat you differently. My brother is the party boy and i'm the geek who sits at home and plays DDR on Saturday nights with her friends. w00t for DDR.

Sharing is important. My brother and I, we're not good at that. He's not in FIRST, unfortunately.

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i'm also the younger of 2. i have an older sister 14 months older than me. im 16 now.. and we work the opposite of well because... well... we're opposites. my sister's the brainy type who knows everything required for getting A+s but nothing other than the required schoolwork. of course she's never had anything less than a 4.0... me... id say i know more stuff i dont need to know than stuff i need to ace my exams. still, ive been holding a steady 3.7 which i suppose is good considering how horrible im doing in some classes (stupid teachers who wont excuse hw even when you never leave school and show up at class the next day and dont buy the excuse 'i couldnt do HOMEwork because i never went HOME!!) :D

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I am the youngest in my family. I have an older brother (18) and an older sister (20). I am treated a little different then my sister and brother. People say they can tell that I am the youngest in the family, but I dont think you can.