Comments on: Birth Order Matters

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Fri, 21 May 2010 05:10:30 +0000

Blog hopping and jumped over here.

LOOOVE IT!

How do I follow? I’m not that used to blogging yet..

By: Kristen @ Motherese

Kristen @ Motherese — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 00:29:55 +0000

I am seeing this phenomenon play out in my own house as we speak, mostly in the realm of food. With my toddler, I kept an actual spreadsheet with the new foods I was introducing to him and stuck firmly to a four-day wait in between new foods. My 11 month old just ate onion and pepper pizza for dinner. Needless to say, we’ve lightened up pretty quickly.

By: Larousse

Larousse — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:44:01 +0000

I am the youngest of 4; we were 2 batches of 2, because the eldest 2 were 12 and 11 when my sister was born and then I came along 6 yrs later when they were 18, 17 and 6 respectively. I think I grew up faster because my mum didn’t have the energy to say “no” any more! I went to the store across the high street on my own when I was 4 and went on the bus to the library on my own when I was 7, much to the disgust of my elder sister. She protested for years about having the same bed-time as me!
She went to a residential training course aged 16 so from the age of 10/11, I was an only child at home and flourished with all the attention (especially as my dad soon retired). However being the last chick in the nest made it quite hard for me to decide to leave home, and when I left aged 24 I felt that if I didn’t soon make the move, I’d still be there aged 40!
All in all, I feel I had the benefits of having siblings and the benefits of being an “only” too. Now our parents are no longer with us, the elder 2 are like my surrogate parents!
There is a 6 yr gap between my 2 boys, and I feel how much more lax / laid-back I am with the younger one! I prefer to think of it as choosing my battles

By: Single First Born

Single First Born — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:17:59 +0000

A Scrabble wise, satire savvy seventh grader attending Mask & Wig with his parents hardly merits a penal trip to a Dickensian reform school for the boy or a visit from DHS to his parents. He already possesses the gene pool to appreciate the program.
Any M&W production is more constructive than most of the PG13 and worse summer movie fare that he will scheme to see without adult supervision. Next stop: Hasty Pudding!

By: skellie

skellie — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:01:55 +0000

I am the baby of the family. I was well aware that my sister had to go through awful battles to take the car out soon after passing her driving exam, and (even worse) the horrendous conflicts about getting her ears pierced! I was the second and last child. Both these events were not problems or issues for me at all. Nor were wearing pants to school (my sister never was allowed!), or later wearing jeans to school, or taking the car to school etc…
BTW, when I lived near Harvard Square and went to see the Hasty Pudding club show, my (female) friends who attended Harvard were disappointed that I would enjoy it (men dressing a women is not funny it is not PC and shame on me!) .

By: terry

terry — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:15:38 +0000

I think that my youngest is so much better off than my oldest. I am so much more relaxed with him.

I am the youngest and remember that my sister was much more coddled than I was. And I was delighted to slip under the radar. I think I became independent faster. And I always had her to watch out for me.

Sounds like a fun night and definitely worth staying up late for!

By: Lindsay Todd

Lindsay Todd — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:33:53 +0000

Absolutely agree! My youngest even complained that I was allowing more bad language and inappropriate television since his brother is in 8th grade. I think he just wanted to make sure I still cared about his moral upbringing! Many more privileges with the younger but I would add a lot more babying of the baby also! There is still a lot of cuddling, and tears and tantrums at 10 years old that would not have been expected (or tolerated?) with the oldest.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:09:13 +0000

MG, I remembered you had strong M&W ties. The display cases up and down the stairs are so fascinating, I wish I had hours to study them. Yes, kids are like pancakes. Remember that if you have more than one, Elizabeth.

By: Elizabeth @ Life in Pencil

Elizabeth @ Life in Pencil — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:27:24 +0000

I’m the only. And I feel like my parents were always pretty even-keeled when it came to parenting. I wasn’t put under lock and key, but there were boundaries.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:04:22 +0000

So with you on this. Chase gets to do everything much sooner than Noah did and I think he is better off. We are so much more relaxed around Chase that he is a more relaxed kid as well. I love the saying that kids are like pancakes – you always ruin the first one.