Glad to see everyone is online! Please respond to this question in one paragraph: Do you think your birth order (whether you are the youngest, oldest, or a middle child) has influenced your personality? Why or why not? Use examples to support your answer.
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I think my birth order has influence my personality somehow. There are two children in my family, and I am the oldest one. I guess that is why I am a little more independent and more responsible than my brother. For example, I get used to live alone and to spend money I earn by myself since high school. Instead, my brother is not so independent as me, even though some of his other positive personalities as carefulness and kindliness which
are better than me, he is usually lack of confidence and strong-mind, so my parents often worry about him rather than me. Compared with other people, perhaps I am not so independent and responsible as I said, but I am certainly different from my brother in these personalities. Therefore, birth order may be one of the reasons that makes the difference between my brother and me, although we grew up in the same family.
I agree that a birth order has influenced my personality for two specific reasons. First, the birth order makes me recognize others wants easily. For exemple, when I was a elementary school student, all of my family members commended me to do something for each of them. By repeating to do what they wanted, I started to guess their desires. After then I became a wit. Moreover, the birth order makes me find a reasonable excuse very quickly. During period of a juvenile, I could not make any reason to explain my mistake. Thus, my brother and sister punished me for my fault, which if I were the oldest child in my family, they could understand what I did. After I got several punishments, I could make some reasonable excuses to avoid their treatments. In this sense, I usually do something with understandable reason. In conclusion, the birth order can not be ignored in the case of accomplishment of my personality.
I think our birth orther has influenced our personality. The person who is the eldest person is disposed that has a sense of responsibility. They recieve a lot of concern and expectation from their parents. Actually some of my friends who are the eldest can't deny what parents want. The other hand the lastborns develope a tendency to have freedom and creativity, because parents are more generous to them. For example if they make a mistake, parents think that's why they are still young even if they are not a child anymore. To sum up, the birth order can influence our personality because of parents' attitude to us.
In my case, I am the oldest in our family, and I think I have much more responsibility than the others. It could be because of birth order. Usually, If someone is the youngest, we think maybe someone could be rude or dependent, and it is usually right. I think parents expect to us what kinds of person we will be by birth order, for example, they think the oldest one has to be like a mother and the youngest one has to be such a kid. However, there are always execption. We don't need to be a person who just do follow the birth order, but birth order could influence us to be a kinds of person.
In general, birth order seems to affect people’s personality; however, in my case, birth order did not caused a lot of personality difference between my younger brother and I. I have one younger brother whom is 9 years younger than me. Our personality has more similarities then differences. For example, both of us are independent and responsible. Even though we are alike, we still have some differences. For example, he is more thoughtful and careful than me. In short, I think birth order somehow has influenced on me but not very big.
I think my personality has been influenced by my birth order. First, it has influenced on negative side of my personality. I have an older brother. Since I was young, my brother, as the oldest child, has received more expectations from my parents than me. It makes me become a person who lacks responsibility. For example, when I and my friends make a problem, I want others take responsibility of it and think making a problem is not my fault. Moreover my brother can do what he wants by himself, on the other hand, I tend to depend on others. I always needed a time to ask someone how to do something. Second, birth order has been influenced on positive side of my personality. I am more sociable than my brother. I like to do something with other people, on the other hand, my brother can’t get along with other people. Because of this, I like to make friends, and get along with well. Therefore, both sides of my personality are influenced by my birth order.
I disagree to this opinion. Birth order hardly ever influences our personality. This is my own thinking. I think that parent's home education is more important than birth order. In my case, I have four older brothers. I have no sister. I'm the youngest in my family. Moreover, I and my older brothers are close in age. My parents always emphasize that you should do everything for yourself. In conclusion, birth order can influence the personality. However, I think that it's not important. Parent's education style has an influence on our personality.
This is Julia B. I think that birth order is definitely shape us and affect our personality when we are younger. But it is not as much when you get older or move out from your own family. Take me as an example, I am the oldest child in my family and I learn how to take care my younger sister when we were little. My mom was a working mom at the time and don’t have a lots time to cook dinner for us. So I have to learn how to make simple food for my sister and I after we back from school. That is one of reasons that when I was young I took things more seriously and will take the responsibility than my younger sister. However, latter when we both grew up and moved out from our family, my sister become a nurse and have more passion to take care other people who need help. That is the reason I think birth order is not that important in latter life.
saranda :
Each person always has his/her own personality that might be effected by many factors. In my opinion, one of those factors is a birth order. According to my family, I am the eldest child and have only one brother. So, my responsibilities are taking care of my brother and teaching him what the proper things are. Therefore, a discipline is one of my important characters. For example, my brother always leaves his belongings out of their places, so it's my job to tell him to keep them though. Because I want to teach him how to do the right things, I shouldn't keep his stuffs by myself as well. On the other hand, my brother who is the youngest in my family is always got more concern. His character is also more sensitive and sometimes lacks of self-confidence either. For example, he always asks our parents or me how should he do, or sometimes he couldn't make his decisions by himself solely. Finally, from my experiences, I strongly concern that the birth order has an effective influence on my behavior as well. Even though, people have many factors that influence their behaviors. The birth order is also one of most important things that has greatly impact on them.
Usually, people’s personalities are influenced by environments which surround them. Among those environments, birth order is also powerful factor that form our personalities. Thus, I agree that our birth order can influence to make our personalities. For example, in my case, I’m the oldest child in my family and have a one younger sister. Sometimes, my mother said that “You and your sister’s personalities are different even though yours were born through me” Specifically, in a same situation, I’m more responsible than my sister because most of oldest person have a common idea that we should take care of our sisters/brothers. Otherwise, my sister is more complaisant than me because most of youngest child always get order from older person. Usually, they don’t order other person, so they are more obedient. However, they get much love from their family. Therefore, like above, our birth order is a big factor to form our personalities.
Many researchers are interested in the subject, birth order, affecting the individual's personality or not. According the reserch analysed by two Swiss social scientists, they concluded the birth-order difference doesn't exist in their sample, about 1500 studies. Althouth there are no exact evdience to support the connection exists, I still fell some influence with my personality. In my family, there are three children, and I am the oldest. when I was a child, my parents always cared me more than my two younger brothers, so I felt more pressure. I think this is the important element affects my personality. Compared I and my brothers, I feel I am more independent than them , because I need to be their model in my parents' concept. Finally, I consider environment affect the personality, and birth order make different surroundings.
Birth Order Influence My Personality
I think my birth order has influenced my personality deeply. First, it influenced my dream. For example, when I was a student in an elementary school, my dream was being a teacher, because I think teacher was a great job for teaching knowledge and helping children grow up. When I studied in a high school, I wanted to be a science for researching computer and software because I like computer and internet. However, now, I want to be a manager and develop my own business for earning more money. Second, birth order changed me to be an independent person. For instance, before I studied in university, I needed my mother to help me wake up every day, and I never washed my clothes and cleared up my bedroom. During studying time in the university, I began to learn about doing housework, cooking and managing my time to study. I learned to be an independent person. Third, birth order has influenced me to be a social person. I make more and more friends year by year. I know that we need to help each other in the world, and how to use the social resources. In conclusion, birth order changes me a lot, and I thing it will keep influencing me year by year.
Vicky
I think the environment makes the person and the birth order can be one of the environments. It affects on my personality. Dr. Kevin Leman, author of The Birth Order Book, said characteristics of firstborns are reliable, independent, thoughtful, critical, serious and highly motivated to achieve. In my case, I'm the oldest child and these characteristics are almost same as me. When I was younger, I always heard from my parents that I had to be a good model to my younger brother. Therefore, I always did mature behaviors than my age such as showing polite to older peoples, caring about my younger brother's meals and schdules when my parents were not at home or solving some problems by myself. Because of these behaviors, my parents have reliance on me and I can deal with someone or something well by myself. To sum up, I became thoughtful, reliable and independent person by roles as a firstborn child.
I think birth order has influence people’s personality a lot. In general, the oldest people of the siblings usually have more responsibility then others. Sometimes they need to take care of their younger siblings because their parents want them to do that. Gradually, they know how to look after others and be responsible for things. Contrasting with the oldest people, the character of youngest people is usually willful because their parents always give them what they want. Another obviously character is they don’t want be alone and usually need some people to help them to help them.
However, it is just some statistics about the birth order.
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