Yesterday I had an interesting conversation and our topic was siblings and if it was hard being a middle child. I was asked to describe how it was like being a middle child and I said it was unfair and tough.
To be honest being a middle child is just as challenging as being the first child. The first child gets to experience all the first. But since all the first are done the middle child now has a higher expectation than the first child, only because our parents learn from mistakes. Therefore being the middle child, you are then forced to being the 'perfect child' and I'm not saying this is applicable to all the cases but you have to admit it is quite true. There are a higher pressure put on you since the first child has failed to do a certain expectation they had and you are expected not to make the same mistake because they have guided you better than the first child. Then again this is just how I see it since I am a middle child.
