Birth Order/Sibling Dynamics

[azurbanclucker]

That never ends well. It's like they have 0 sense of humor.

Offer 'em donuts. Always goes great!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Offer 'em donuts. Always goes great!

Oh I like it.
Like one of those incognito bribes...
Slid donut onto table and say I found this donut, did you drop it....

 

[azurbanclucker]

Oh I like it.
Like one of those incognito bribes...
Slid donut onto table and say I found this donut, did you drop it....

More like

"Oh hey, I was gonna offer you a donut, but I'm not sure one will fill you up. Take the whole box, Officer double-wide."

 

[The Moonshiner]

More like

"Oh hey, I was gonna offer you a donut, but I'm not sure one will fill you up. Take the whole box, Officer double-wide."

Note to self.
Never get hauled in for questioning with you.

 

[NotabitaiI]

Bahahahahaha not. Some applies. Organization and I had a pretty massive disagreement about age 3, and haven't spoken since. The only lists I make are for groceries, and I still forget half the stuff. And I cannot be serious, even in serious situations. I'm the annoying dude who'd be cracking jokes in the police interrogation as a coping mechanism.

I feel like my undiagnosed ADHD is keeping me from checking the Type-A boxes
Most of the latter half is actually pretty spot on tho.

Those traits can be any person though, regardless of birth order.

I think we can make some generalizations and find correlations but on an individual level these stereotypes fall apart. To apply them in the first place you have to have a very typical family dynamic and specific age gaps. Also some of those things just require you to read Atomic Habits and get therapy they're not personality traits.

Might as well be reading zodiac signs as truth at that point.

Well I'm glad we agree on that

 

[thecatumbrella]

We have done the same with our kids. The age gap between oldest and youngest is 15 years, and the 2 youngest definitely got the benefit of some of the hard lessons we learned with the first 2.

My husband has a 19 year age difference with his younger brother (so my BIL). Honestly, it's kind of awesome to learn about another generation firsthand. I hope your kiddos get to experience this as well.

I'm an only child. There was a noticeable difference between myself and friends that were raised with siblings. You "mature" much faster on your own. Heavy quotations around mature, seeing as I'm a perpetual child in some ways.

 

[NotabitaiI]

You "mature" much faster on your own.

And then if you get siblings later on you revert back to your primitive savage ways and find yourself chucking plastic dinosaurs right back in their fat baby faces.
There's always the expectation from others that because of my age I'll behave different with them but age gap or not we're siblings and we squabble like the rest of em.

 

[notabitail]

And then if you get siblings later on you revert back to your primitive savage ways and find yourself chucking plastic dinosaurs right back in their fat baby faces.
There's always the expectation from others that because of my age I'll behave different with them but age gap or not we're siblings and we squabble like the rest of em.

I still throw stuffed animals at some of The Siblings. It's fun and helps my arm get strong-ish.

 

[NotabitaiI]

I still throw stuffed animals at some of The Siblings. It's fun and helps my arm get strong-ish.

The other day I expertly flicked a carrot chunk into my sister's eye while we were watching a movie, totally unprovoked. I know I should feel bad but I underestimated myself and I actually feel very proud of my snipe.

 

[notabitail]

The other day I expertly flicked a carrot chunk into my sister's eye while we were watching a movie, totally unprovoked. I know I should feel bad but I underestimated myself and I actually feel very proud of my snipe.

That's crazy.

A couple nights ago one of my sisters got mad at my brother's stuff burro and threw it down the hallway. Turns out it's easy to throw it at said sister if the house is dark since she didn't see it coming.