What is your birth order

Hi there! I am the eldest in our family and I guess that the birth order does play a major role. I am usually the first to assume responsibility when something needs to be done and they seem to rely on me to decide in the absence of our parents. I think that it is great to have that authority but great responsibility goes with it. There are lots of lessons to be learned and pain to experience to be able to lead effectively in my case. But it is worth it and when it all comes down to it, you won't be able to think about it much but the good times that we shared with our family and the things that we learned along the way.

I'm the oldest. I am the "strong" one as my mom puts it, she even goes so far as to say she doesn't worry about me as much as my baby sister.(She's 27 by the way). I am more responsible and focused, and also more independant, and I think it has to do with our birth order.

Hi makingpots I can see how that would work out that way. Im the oldest of two sisters. I was always having to take care of them and I didnt like it. I was always fighting with them. Now that we are older and have our own families we get along just fine.And Im still the oldest so what I say goes.LOL

But you're probably the favorite coz you're the youngest. Here in our country, the youngest of the children are always spoiled. LOL. Me, I'm sixth: Four older brothers, an elder sister, a younger sister and a younger brother. I don't know exactly how that affected me. I've always heard about how the middle child is this, the eldest is this and the youngest is like that but I never heard anyone analyze a sixth child---probably because only a few families have more than 5 children.

I only have one sister,she is five years old than me.My sister and my parents take good care of me. I am happy and lucky!I also will be a teacher in July!makingpots, i think your paying attention to the order of your students is very good, i can study from you in my teaching.Thank you!

I am the youngest in my family. My sister is 19 years older than I am and my brother is 17 years older than I am. It was like having three families when I was young, because by the time I was old enough to remember things, both my siblings were married. I remember when mom and dad went out of town I would stay with one of them. It was kind of nice to stay with my sister, because my oldest neice is only 4 years younger than I am. My brothers oldest child is 7 years younger than I am. But, I have always been the baby of the family and even now at 38 years old they still try to protect me and hover over me if I have a problem. I guess it is ok, but now my mom is getting older and having financial and memory problems, she gambles a lot,too. We are now taking a stand together to get mom the help that she needs and they are finally asking for my input on issues. I don't know, but I think they might be finally seeing me as an adult! Ha! Ha! tdbrower1969

i am the middle of 3 girls. my older sister got to do what she wanted (they learned from her mistakes so they were alot harder on me). my baby sister was just that the baby did nothing wrong and had to do nothing. i had to keep an eye on both of them if anything happened i better e there for them. i got a job at age 15. and had my own house by the time i was 17. it made me stronger in many ways. i learned not to ever depend on anyone and to always be ther for anyone that needs someone.

I am the oldest in my family. It is just my sister and I. I am 4 1/2 years older than her. She has always been the baby of the family. I was the one my parents were the hardest on and it is still that way today, even though I have been married for 3 years tomorrow 3-27. She is still treated as the favorite and the baby. SHe will be married a year 5-6.

I am the youngest of 6 children, 2 boys and 4 girls. We were not so close to each other and life went on just ordinarily. My older sister the third supported me in college but as if we were strange to each other. I did not feel that I was favored because I'm the youngest.

I am in the middle, I have a younger brother and older brother. We grew up ok and nothing was an issue. But having 2 brothers definantly was an influence to me, I grew up as a tom boy, tinkering with cars and hanging out like one of the boys...still do..lol I wouldnt change anything though.

I am the middle child in my family I have an older sister and a younger brother. my sister and me are not close really have not heard from her for 10 years but me and my brother are close.

I am in the middle and I think it's made me more dependent. I def. think I am a stronger person because of it. It's that same old saying the older one got to do everything and everyone paid attetion to the baby. I felt like I was left out a lot and no body cared what I did.

I am the oldest in my family. I also took the fall for EVERYTHING. If the dog chewed up my mom's shoe that I knew my baby brother threw her way, I still got blamed. I also ended up taking on more responsibility than my brother's did. Since I left home, my mom has had to resort to paying them ludicrous amounts of allowance to get them to do the same work I generally did for $2 a day. As for my personality.. I'm a worrier, a follower, a procrastinator, a list maker and a big time prioritzer, so I guess I don't fit the oldest child profile to a T. :)

I am the only child in the family, I envy my friends who have brothers and sisters who can support them. It is very difficult if you are the only child, because you are the only "hope" (so to speak)in your family. When family crisis arise like parent's hospitalization I would be the only one to shoulder everything and I dont have brothers and sisters for support may it be financially or emotionally. So, for all of you who have brothers and sisters you are very lucky because you are more stronger in terms of family support. thanks...:)

I lived in a foster family and I was 3rd eldest out of six of us! Three of us (the eldest) were foster kids, and the youngest three were her own children!

im the younges...we are only two

I am the middle child.There's seven of us altogether. I felt like I was ingored and put aside on a lot of things .This has made me a stronger person. I'm always helping my family members with different things. The funny thing about this is that I'm the one who needs help due to the fibromyalia and other illness I have.