Birth Order

Adding this to my list of fireside reads. 

I have heard some crushing statements from Jeffrey's

 studies that I would like to learn more about... (er...maybe)

According to Jeffrey, parents favor the first born child

 more. I am a second born. This is bad news for me. 

I am going to get to the bottom of this. Paige if you are 

reading this... the gauntlet has been thrown... 

(haha... :) kidding.)

According to Jeffery's article in TIME Magazine 

The first born has a higher IQ, probably due to mentoring

 the children underneath them. They are also usually 

the tallest and largest. But here is something those 

born later have going for us according to Jeffery's 

article in TIME:

"But there are low-power strategies too, and one of the most 

effective ones is humor. It's awfully hard to resist the charms 

of someone who can make you laugh, and families abound 

with stories of last-borns who are the clowns of the brood, able

 to get their way simply by being funny or outrageous. Birth-order 

scholars often observe that some of history's great satirists—

Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain—were among the youngest

 members of large families, a pattern that continues today. 

Faux bloviator Stephen Colbert—who yields to no one in his 

ability to get a laugh—often points out that he's the last of 11 

children.

Such examples might be little more than anecdotal, but personality

 tests show that while firstborns score especially well on the 

dimension of temperament known as conscientiousness—a 

sense of general responsibility and follow-through—later-borns 

score higher on what's known as agreeableness, or the simple

 ability to get along in the world. "Kids recognize a good low-power 

strategy," says Sulloway. "It's the way any sensible 

organism sizes up the niches that are available."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1673284,00.html#ixzz1Z3z6tiDn