Personalities/order of children

[Melanie Moore]

No: HPFGUIDX 5072


--- Rita Winston <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:

> I clearly remember the frustration of *constantly* stretching my hand 
> all the way to the ceiling (and eventually waving it around) for what 
> certainly *seemed* like a good fifteen minutes, in which no one else 
> ever raised their hand, and the teacher called on them *anyway*, and 
> they gave quite idiotically wrong answers, and I *really wanted* to 
> get that easy question solved so we could go on to the next thing. I 
> confess that I *also* was hungry for attention in any form that did 
> not involve someone hitting me. 

I can remember that, as well.  Ironically, my grades weren't what they
should have been, due more to boredom than inability.




> I've gotten over being the oldest, and whenever I reached a 
> milestone birthday that entitled me to have my allowance increased 
> or my bedtime made later, within days my brother (two years younger, 
> almost to the day) had the same allowance and same bedtime as me. 

<rant>
I can relate.  I remember being told I was "just about old enough for an
allowance".  Next birthday (my seventh), I started getting one, and so did
my brother (younger by two years and six weeks).  So is that telling me
that at almost seven, I was too young, but my brother was old enough before
he was five?
</rant>


I was raised as the oldest (older for the English majors), but I really
wasn't.  I weigh in from the unique "Percy position" of the family
(assuming there's a large gap between Charlie and Percy).  I am the older
of my mother's children, but when I was born, my father already had three
adult children by a previous marriage.  And guess what the two oldest are
named:  Bill and Charles!

Melanie

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