The Birth Order
Every family is unique, not one person is the same, and everybody has different personalities. In the article “The Achiever, the Peacemaker, and the Life of the Party: How Birth Order Affects Personality” by Dr. Gail Gross, she explains these scenarios about the birth order and how you may relate to them. Living with my aunts and being the youngest makes me relate to the last scenarios. But later on when my mom had my brother I became the oldest and, I matured, then I started to relate to the first scenario more. Living with so many girls (five), plus my grandma, I have learned so many things, bad and good. I did not have many responsibilities or chores. Even though I was young, I remember living with them and being lazy. …show more content…
I learned how to be independent and, I definitely matured. I started to do many things on my own because it was not all about me anymore. With doing things on my own I did not need my mother as much anymore because, I was in that stage where I thought I knew it all. A few years down the road my grandma had another daughter and I babysat her all the time, so I felt like her second mom, not her niece. With having a younger brother, and aunt, I tried to act like their second mom.
Trying to act like another parent for my brother and younger aunt can be very hard. I try to give them the best advice and make sure they do right and that they do good. I love to see not just my family, but everybody do great things. It makes me feel like I do a good job at being a sister and niece when they come up to me and tell me “Thank you.”
For example Dr. Gross uses The Peacemaker to explain the middle child, she uses keywords like “understanding, cooperative, flexible, and competitive” to describe the middle child. Being the older child I somewhat relate to The Peacemaker because when I think of myself, these are the things I think I
Every family is unique, not one person is the same, and everybody has different personalities. In the article “The Achiever, the Peacemaker, and the Life of the Party: How Birth Order Affects Personality” by Dr. Gail Gross, she explains these scenarios about the birth order and how you may relate to them. Living with my aunts and being the youngest makes me relate to the last scenarios. But later on when my mom had my brother I became the oldest and, I matured, then I started to relate to the first scenario more. Living with so many girls (five), plus my grandma, I have learned so many things, bad and good. I did not have many responsibilities or chores. Even though I was young, I remember living with them and being lazy. …show more content…
I learned how to be independent and, I definitely matured. I started to do many things on my own because it was not all about me anymore. With doing things on my own I did not need my mother as much anymore because, I was in that stage where I thought I knew it all. A few years down the road my grandma had another daughter and I babysat her all the time, so I felt like her second mom, not her niece. With having a younger brother, and aunt, I tried to act like their second mom.
Trying to act like another parent for my brother and younger aunt can be very hard. I try to give them the best advice and make sure they do right and that they do good. I love to see not just my family, but everybody do great things. It makes me feel like I do a good job at being a sister and niece when they come up to me and tell me “Thank you.”
For example Dr. Gross uses The Peacemaker to explain the middle child, she uses keywords like “understanding, cooperative, flexible, and competitive” to describe the middle child. Being the older child I somewhat relate to The Peacemaker because when I think of myself, these are the things I think I