Pros And Cons Of Birth Order

Birth order is entirely meaningless due to divergence, different environments, and exaggeration being the real reasons why siblings are different.
Multiple studies prove that your order of birth doesn’t really affect you at all. An article wrote on this confirming the information and giving factual evidence.There has been a huge study of over 300 thousand people confirming it. Moreover, the researchers claimed that the studies were the biggest ever studies conducted on the birth order issue. If there had ever been studies to truly confirm the solution on the birth order issue, it was this one. To be fair, there was a small difference between the first born have only a slight one point advantage in their IQ tests. In addition, firstborns tended to be more “extroverted, agreeable and conscientious”. In other words, firstborns happened to barely have a slight, I repeat, slight advantage and it was very minimal to say the least. Interestingly,if you sit a group of kids together on a sofa, it is still almost impossible determining which one was a firstborn. It has been studied that the human mind can’t possibly depict such small differences across the children. On the contrary, many parents believe birth order does in fact matter due to the firstborn being the most responsible and mature. On the …show more content…
“So if one child in a family seems to excel at academics, to avoid direct competition, the other child — consciously or unconsciously — will specialize in a different area, like socializing.” Therefore, children will want to be better than their siblings in different aspects. For example, my twin brother is very different than me because we specialized in different sports. My brother has always been bigger than me and therefore, he joined wrestling to improve his advantage. I’ve always been a faster runner, so I did track and field and cross country to specialize in those