Birth Order Trait

Psychologists claim that our birth order determines our character. Previous studies claim, among others, that:

the eldest child: more responsible, mature, often a perfectionist, a good leader, higher IQ, low self-esteem

the middle child (any child born between the eldest and the youngest): not an over achiever, creative, artistically inclined, often felt neglected, lack of direction.

the youngest child: often get away with anything, not independent, often not taken seriously.

What do you think: is it true that we're all purportedly born with traits/ character that matches our birth order, or is it simply a made-up condition?

The task that needs to be completed for this week is a bit tough. All of us need to go through each point given in the statement above and give our opinion. Basically the point that will be given was come up from our own experience or peoples around us.

Birth Order Trait is actually informations that can explains how an individual life and characters were going by being the eldest one, the middle child and also the youngest born. Here some experiences from all of us that we like to share with all of you.

From the eldest until the youngest

The things that can be conclude from the claims is most of it was true and a bit of it was not. 

• For the eldest child, only the low self-esteem behaviour we're not agreed. For me, (nabihah) I did not think that the eldest child has a higher IQ.

1. The eldest brother of mine (izzah) for example, his can communicate confidence with the new people that he meet. It also was easy for him to convince people. Besides, i've never heard him mutter about his life. 
2. Meanwhile, for my eldest sister (amalina), it is a bit same with izzah's eldest brother and the strong prove of it is she was a debater in UIA not a long time ago (Islamic International University). High confidence level, easy to influence people and expert in convince people for decisions making.
3. In my opinion, (nabihah) i'm not agree with the first child has a higher IQ. As the eldest child in my family, I always feel my others sibling was smarter than me. I can not find the strong prove of it but maybe this opinion was due to my low self-esteem. 

• For the middle child, all of us share the same thought which we didn't agree with the point of not an over achiever. My dad for example (izzah) is a middle child in his family and yet he is the over achiever. Among his siblings, he is the one that manage to further study in higher level. It does mean that my aunts did not success in their life and studies, but the opportunity and the education institution wasn't much at their times. Furthermore, the way of thinking of the older like my grandparents was a bit different. For daughters, it's better for them to learn on how to be a good housewife rather than have a high education.
• For the youngest child, we're totally agreed with all the points claimed. Our youngest brother or sister was often get away with anything, not independent, often not taken things seriously and another points that we like to add is easy to be influence and cannot decide the important things in their life by themselves. 

One of us is the eldest child and the others of us were middle child

Finally, from all the contention, it can be simplified that all of us agreed with the most of the claims make by the prior researchers and thus make birth order trait is a valid theory.