the middle child is the most misunderstood child. amirite?

I'm the middle child D:

by Anonymous 12 years ago

me too

by Anonymous 12 years ago

also the middle child.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

How is the middle child misunderstood? I am not trying to argua with you if that is how you get offended I am just wondering what makes it so hard for the middle child but not the other children. I asked my sister and she thinks she is entitles to saying it is hard being the middle child without reason .

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because the younger sibling is spoiled because its the youngest. The oldest is spoiled because it is the first. The middle child is neither.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

in my family the oldest gets spoiled while the closest they come to spoiling me is at the end of the year if I was good i get 1 video game of my choice. The middle child is some where in between but then again I am the only male in the house and my sisters and mom act really sexist

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ha well for me its my sister gets all the benefits of being oldest but is also spoiled for being the first born. My brother gets no responsibility (like cleaning and such) but still gets benefits like staying up and having friends over a lot. While I, the middle child, gets twice as many responsibilities as the eldest and youngest together but I don't get as many benefits as the oldest because I'm "not old enough". although I do get about the same amount of benefits as my younger brother

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Seems like the oldest always gets spoiled just for being their first born. My parents tried to stop spoiling her but she acted like a bitch [well more of a bitch] and when my father tried spending 30 minutes quality time per day with me [because I am his only son] she always butted in saying that he was spoiling me too much even though she got to spend 3 hours with him per school day [which is about half of the time from when he got off work to when we went to bed.]

by Anonymous 12 years ago

@1256655 (Anonymous): So I was reading this conversation and it all seems so weird to me. I'm the youngest but I always had responsibilities. Cleaning/helping out, etc. My older sisters had more (because as I was little I just couldn't do some of the things they could), but when I got older and left, it all fell to me. My middle sister got just as many opportunities and benefits as we all did, but she was a mega bitch all the time. Apparently though, she has some chemical imbalance in her brain and is on a bunch of mood drugs. Still, it's weird to me that families are like that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I guess families are different and that is kind of weird that there are a lot of ways of distributing the benfits and responsibilities between oldest child, middle child, and youngest child.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, it is pretty weird. Maybe because my sisters were really close together (11 months apart, I think) so they were pretty equal. I'm several years younger than my sisters so I got less responsibility when I was young, but then more when I was older and they left home (I guess it evened itself out).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I wish it was that way for my family. I mean you guys may think that I'm exaggerating, but I'm really not. My younger brother has no responsibilities. He doesn't have any chores. I have two pages full, but he can have more friends over more often then me. He also gets more money when he asks for it. For my older sister before she moved out she was a total bitch. She had like a half a page of chores that she made me do when my parents were gone, but my parents trusted me more so I had that going for me.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hmm... That really sucks. Just know that you'll have a greater ability to run your own household some day and you'll be a better person for it. Your brother will probably always have a sense of self entitlement and that won't do him well in the real world. You'll probably be the best off.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know. I keep trying to tell my parents they need to teach him responsibility or he won't make it on his own but the just ignore me or tell me to go to my room. I don't mind though. He's gonna turn out just like my sister and, trust me, if you knew her, you'd know how bad that is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I understand. Just do the best YOU can and that's all there is.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah, that's how it was with my older sister.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This is totally true for my family. My parents wanted a boy, but they had 2 girls before having one. I'm the middle child and my sister is "spoiled" because she was their first, and my brother is spoiled because he's the boy they wanted in the first place... :/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

YES the oldest gets all the responsibility, and my parents believe everything they say... and the youngest is always the baby, and since there too "young" they get off easy even if were a year apart. its bullshit

by Anonymous 12 years ago

i dont think you understand the responsibility the eldest child has. do you think we enjoy babysitting our siblings when we could be at the mall? no. do you think we like doing more chores? no. plus, we're like the parents guinea pig. seriously, being the oldest isn't all its cracked up to be.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm the oldest, and it sucks, but I think being the middle child wouldn't be any better- worse actually. The first born would spoiled and although the guinea pig, that does work to our advantage. And more chores? Those are eventually handed off to the middle child. I think Lax has a point. and I think you are getting a little too offended. :)

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I was the middle child but then my mom had another baby and my older sister graduated so I got shifted into being the oldest and it's way worse than being the middle. All the responsibility sucks.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

From what I understand, the middle child likes to whine about how they're the middle child. What's misunderstood about that?? ;D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm the middle child but I enjoy that my younger brother and older sister get way more attention, I prefer the solitude and I can't relate to the rest of my family, anyway. Black sheep, I guess.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That's exactly how I am.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Represent

by Anonymous 12 years ago

it is only you and your evil tiwn wario and luigi and his evil twin waluigi your family has no middle child. You barely have parents.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Stupid generalization is stupid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm the youngest, but my sister and I are twins so the only thing that we have different is that she can say she's older just to annoy me and that she can complain about haw she's the middle, even though we are treated the same. My brother is treated better sometimes, and he used to get out of chores for homework when he was our age, but now he's still older so we can't say we have homework, or he'll say he does too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm a middle child. I'm not exactly misunderstood, I just don't get the attention my other siblings do. I've been raised to discipline myself and make the right choices because of it, and it's been wholly beneficial.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My family: Oldest child- paid for a fifth of her car second (given her first) Middle child (me)- have to pay for her own car in full (and still not allowed to buy one yet because "I don't need one" despite being forgotten for hours at a time at various locations) Youngest- already promised car for free since it would be time for an trade in with the parental cars. I'm not bitter, I promise.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Then how bout you stop whining and get evidence, then show your parents what exactly they said? Like record it or something.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I don't know about your parents, but I think most would be too stubborn to let their kid use "evidence" to prove them wrong about something

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, I do deal with favoritism, because my parents obviously favor my older brother. While it is tough, I always like to tell myself that I would be much better off than my brother because he is pampered and I am not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My parents were really strict with my sister and me and never let is do anything. We also have all the responsibilities. All our younger sisters never get punished, are allowed to do whatever they like, and have no responsibilities. By the time they were born, our parents mellowed out and gave them more freedom. Being the eldest is the worst.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm a middle child and yeah I understand that the other siblings get more privleges..its because their older. When you're their age you'll get those benefits. On the other hand, the younger siblings get babied..so did you when you were their age. I have an older sister who's a few years older and a younger sister with an extremely rare disease, they get a lot of benefits from that but really, its not a big deal. Stop complaining

by Anonymous 12 years ago

im the middle child, i have an older sister four years older than me and a younger sisters seven years younger than me. my both my sister get tons more freedom than me. older sister gets more friend time & younger sister doesnt get to clean or any of that crap. i guess i can say its not fair but then again i make more mischief between my sisters that i think i can get away with. i think thats why you say we're misunderstood because all kids i know that are middle kids but get into trouble more often.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

well im the middle child of 2 brothers older and younger. I get most of the chores because im the middle and the only girl. most of the attention goes to my brothers and i also get in the most trouble even when its not my fault and it feels most of the time my parents don't understand me. and im not very close to them or can relate to them either.

by Anonymous 12 years ago