>> 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 attention,
 SR> not always but usually. In my own family, my middle brother cannot do
 SR> any wrong, even though he is a complete swine. Both my yougest brother
 SR> and I cannot do anything right :)

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

Sharon

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