Blog 10: CATW Practice 3

In the passage, How Your Birth Order influence your life adjustment by Lucille Forer explains how the child becomes known as an only, younger, or by middle depending on the order of their birth .

One of the author most important ideas is how a child is place into a role to establish what certain attitude he/she should have towards certain people. The author gives examples on each child older, younger, middle, or only child.  An older child is more capable as the middle child thinks of himself similar to the oldest; the youngest child is less able to do certain things than others. As for the only child tend to think as an own person.

One significant part of this summary id bring and older child and having a younger sibling. the reason why, my brother was older than me by 7 years, throughout the years that we grew together he was always responsible and he thought about himself while I was the middle child always willing to help and always wanted to do better than my other sibling my younger sister was more concerned on how people thought of her and always wanted someone to help her with homework because she was spoiled.

I thought being in a certain order wouldn’t make a difference on how your values are towards your family but it does. The oldest is smarter the middle is trying to keep up and the younger always becomes the laziest. In my opinion each and one of us has a role to play even if we are the only child it is just more pressure being by yourself and not having any siblings.

Sometimes since it get intense because I have to take on more responsibilities and be a role model for my sister or she’ll become even lazier. I play a role as being the middle/oldest child now because I developed more interest.

In my opinion your birth order dose influence your life, the more responsibilities   you take the more you grow as an adult and need parents around as much. When the author speaks about other members of the family expects certain attitudes from each child, it is very true. Your order dose influences your life it’s how you become and adult and proves to your family on what they expected from you. You can even help friends with decisions just by the way your expected. Your birth order helps influence others around you in school.

In conclusion this passage tells you what roles a person plays being in a certain birth order. I believe that it does make a difference in what order you are born in especially towards my parents. This passage gives good examples and explains the birth order and also helps you figure what type of behavior you should have.