Faculty Experts: Catherine Salmon-The psychology of middle children and birth order

[lauryn]

The worst thing about being middle child is that many of my friends where either youngest or oldest and just couldn’t understand me

[TVKid]

She described me so well, I'm actually crying.

[bekhal]

Traits of the middle child:
1-good negotiators
2- trailblazers and very open to experience
3-Higher level of empathy
4-the justice seeker
5- independent and self sufficient

[ericksoncalderon]

She actually read me like a book we middle children are the best

[rabit]

I was the baby until the third child came along. She died when she was a baby and my mother was depressed my entire childhood. Then my mother got pregnant again, six years after the death of the third child. I grew up very confused, alone and just realized, in my 40’s that I had an unhappy childhood.

[adriedrake]

I am a mom of 3 girls . I worry the most about my middle daughter. Im willing to do anything for my childern to feel special. Im trying a different approach to spend specific time just with her to feel just as special.Thank you for this video

[karami]

Middle child with an an avoidant attachment style. I just deal with my personal issues by myself. My older and younger brothers took up much of mom’s time and attention and I was left to just deal with stuff on my own. Mom never reach out to me or asked me how I was doing. Heck, she doesn’t even know what my favorite music, movies or TV shows are. 😢

[cooper]

I’m a middle child and my whole life my parents said I should become a lawyer because of how much negotiated/argued

[godstomper]

As a middle child I was actually very close to both my parents but my home life was quite somewhat dysfunctional in my teen years when my parents separated and I was the one trying to be the diplomat in a chaotic household. It indeed affected my life til now.

[sunhan]

Now that's a description 👍👍👍.
Other videos were just describing us as the failures😒

[zeggai]

I have read your book and it made me understand a lot in a crisis period. Also, Self awareness changed all and the self-esteem thing that I have to work on was brought to the light.

[bnzy]

As a law enforcement officer and middle born it makes sense. Risk taking, negotiating, and justice seeking. 🧐

[KathRob]

Wow ! I am definitely a negotiator. I learn about what people want and then try to make a deal with them, that serves both of us ! I am always told that I'm a justice seeker ! I want things to be fair and my sibs dont understand.

[Tv-ueyf]

I’m the middle child when I was a kid I wasn’t sociable because I was too dumb to talk to pears at school, some people even judged me for not speaking, and I didn’t easily get friends in elementary school due to my lack of communication. By the time I was in high school in grade 9, I started to talk to my friends that I got in my science class, this all started after I had a crush on a boy in English class. That’s when I really wanted friends and talking to anybody, the more I talk the more friends and people I earned. But the boy that I mentioned that I had crush on, sadly he didn’t like me though, so I completely forgot about him and move on. But lucky news was that there was a another boy that became friends with me, he helped me. I got a friend when I was in elementary school, when I first came to her house, I was 9 at that time I was too shy to talked to her. Now I’m in high school, I met her again when I was in grade 10 after Covid. Me and my friend did fun things together. Now I’m in grade 11, I have another story to tell you, I had a crush on a boy from Ukraine but my heart felt a bit tempted but I sit still and listen to kpop to not make it obvious. Also one more story to tell you, when I was in grade 8, I had a crush on a boy from South Korea but I didn’t know him as much. I had lot of help at home and at school.

[PhoeniixFiire]

Yep, this described me to a T. Kind of shocking, I hadn't realized that my position on the birth order had such a huge effect on my personality.

[zoeysmith]

Isn’t it so terrible that we need to make business negotiations with our parents?

[loveandwar]

Everything my fault in the family 🤷‍♂️

[darrencollison]

In a dysfunctional family, alcoholic emotional abuse the middle child syndrome is excaserbated 10 fold having an older sister and younger brother me being the oldest son . Sister being largely left to her bedroom and younger brother taken with mother to the battered wife's refuge and me stuck in the middle taking the brunt of my father's rages it took me 40 years to work out I had a colourful upbringing now at 55 I feel more comfortable in my skin its took a lot of work I cant recommend gabour mate enough for his work on child trauma

[kashmiriborah]

I m a middle child. She described very well.
I have two best friends and we three besties are Middle child 😊😊😊

[chrismanuel]

I'm a middle child and I was given nothing. My older brother and younger sister got everything. it ruined my life