Hello Sharon.

06 Mar 05 16:22, you wrote to me:

 >>> This makes me wonder about the "middle child
syndrome". There is
 >>> suppose to be something to the effect that the middle children, I
 >>> guess especially the secon child where they are ignored or
 >>> something. My daughters are the same age for 4 days and they were
 >>> treated equally. When one got something the other did too, same
 >>> with going places. When my son came a few years later it was the
 >>> same. Later my "middle child" probably got more
attention because
 >>> she was a bookworm and stayed home most of the time. The other 2
 >>> did their thing. Even today, I hear more from her than the other
 >>> 2. I guess that blew that theory. :-)

 SR>> I think there is as the middle children seem to get more
 SR>> attention, not always but usually. In my own family, my middle
 SR>> brother cannot do any wrong, even though he is a complete swine.
 SR>> Both my yougest brother and I cannot do anything right :)

 SC> You couldn't prove that by my sister who was the second of 5 kids. Now
 SC> the brother who was born after her and the first son was like your
 SC> middle brother. He could have gotten away with murder in our house,
 SC> but I think that was more being the first son than a middle child. And
 SC> that was more my dad's doing than my mom's.

Usually it is the other way around, by this I mean tha fathers side with
daughters and mothers with sons. I have seen this in a lot of families
arouind the place

Sean

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