Birth Order Blues: How Parents Can Help their Children Meet the Challenges of their Birth Order: 1

Birth order has a powerful effect on childrens emotional development on their self-esteem and on their sense of well-being. The youngest child the firstborn the middleborn twins and the only child all have specific birth order issues that if not atted to early on can impair their functioning and their interpersonal relations at home and at school and can follow them into adulthood. Parental birth order too plays an important role as do such other factors as gender and family size. To understand these birth order blues the author an expert in parent-child relationships first raises parents awareness of the impact of birth order upon children. She then shows how to identify their childrens birth order problems often disguised by behaviors such as underachievement or aggression and suggests how they can resolve these issues and prevent negative behavioral patterns from developing.