The Birth Order

 Some people say that the birth order means much in the formation of one's personality. In the other words, they claim that Your place in the family, whether You are the oldest, the middle, or the youngest child, can strongly influence what a person You may be in life. Personally, I both agree and disagree with such a view on the birth order.

On the one hand, I think that birth order does influence a person's character. The same is what a lot of the scientists say. Moreover, some of the "researches say birth order differences are as strong as gender difference". To my mind, there is really some difference between the children within a family. The oldest children usually tend to have the leadership qualities, tend to be perfectionists, and to make an accent on the education. The middle usually grow up as very competitive people, as far as from the very childhood they have to fight for the attention from the side of their parents. They are also usually creative and do not like to follow someone in the views or whatever, probably, because they get "fed up" with the authority of their older siblings in the early childhood. The youngest children of a family are in a lot of cases, according to the scientists and researchers, while growing up become very out-going and creative personalities, however, without any special ambitions about themselves. They also tend to be more dependent on the views and attitudes of their peer-friends. All in all, there is a lot of situations when this birth order depending does work. This way, I can say that I agree with a lot of aspects of this theory.

However, on the other hand, I think that anyway in the every single family there are certain special aspects, which can make a difference in the common view on the question of the birth order theory. For example, the atmosphere within a family may influence the lives and personalities of the kids who grow up in it. Under the word "atmosphere" I mean the way the children are bought up, the attitude and relationships in the parent-child communicating. By the way, the relations between the parent of a family are also of great importance. I am sure that these aspects play really great role in the formation of a child's character. And, of course, the environment in general a kid lives in - this is what mostly develops these or those particular traits of personality in him/her.

All things considered, my personal position is that the theory of the birth order works. But, at the same time, some aspects can possibly change it in a particular family. This way, parents should take care of their children very well and make them prepared for the adult life and try to influence their personalities in the best way they can, because not everything depends just on the birth order. And because, as one great person said: "Children are one third of our population and all of our future."