Personal Narrative: Life Beyond Childhood

The option to be born is definitely is not a personal decision, where an individual has no say in altering factors in their life. Factors like someone’s birth order can ultimately affect how someone may grow up in a certain household. Despite the actuality of siblings growing up in the same household and in most cases by the same parental forces, there is a shift in experiences where an individual can lead completely different lives compared to their sibling. As each child brings new life into a household and our new contemporary attitudes and temperament clashes with old traditional values, our birth order provides aid in the molding and internalizing character traits to influence individuality and life beyond childhood. “The Peacemaker” or more commonly known as the middle child serves a distinctive place in the family, as the ability to adapt to any situation comes more naturally compared to other siblings. There is far more of an advantage compared to other birth orders to think more critically and see situation and conflicts in both opposing …show more content…
Which can lead to resentment and sibling rival. But in my own experiences, I either excelled or beat expectations placed by older siblings. This overcoming of expectations never served as grounds as competition, I simply had strengthens and my parents never influenced any grounds for rivalry. Plus, the assumption that middle children are misunderstood is merely a direct result of negligence, even through I was not top priority most of the time, rebellion was never a real outlet for me. Even though it did help in the formation in coming into my own, it was not fueled by misunderstanding and miscommunication between my parents. The same authoritative nature remained the same through out all my siblings, so there would be no miscommunications in the raising of