Birth_Order

Birth Order Although families are getting smaller, the majority of American children still grow up with at least one sibling, and there is certainly no shortage of speculation about the roles that brothers and sisters play in a child’s life. Sibling rivalry is the spirit of competition, jealousy, and resentment that may arise between two or more siblings. For over a hundred years psychologists have been studying how our birth order determines our personalities and relationships. The reason psychologists find it important to examine birth order is because it can be very revealing. A person’s relationship with their parents appears permanently determined by their birth order, and their relationship with their brothers and sisters is the longest they will endure in their lives. The reason for this is because siblings are nearer in age than ones parents and we know them long before we meet our spouses and friends. Many psychologists believe that each person is born with a distinct character and special gift that distinguishes them from every other person in the family tree and society. When this inner capacity for goodness is identified, acknowledged and nurtured in childhood, it brings strength to society and success to the child. From this born, first, order, birth, child, children, siblings, parents, psychologists, sisters, sibling, second, life, brothers, borns, because, attention, warm, very, success, society, same, resentment, relationships, relationship, reason, person, people, parental, one, often, now, lives, least, grow, friends