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Family & Relationships. Christian Nonfiction. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML: Firstborn? Only child? Middle child? Baby of the family? Find out what it means to you, your relationships, and your career. Do you realize that of the first twenty-three astronauts in space, twenty-one were firstborns and the other two were the only child in their family? Are you aware that many successful entrepreneurs are middle children? Is it any surprise that most comedians are the youngest child in their family? It's all about birth order. Birth order powerfully influences who you are, whom you marry, the job you choose, and the kind of parent you are. And Dr. Kevin Leman's The Birth Order Book will help you understand yourself, get along better with others, overcome ingrained tendencies you never thought you could get rid of, and be more successful in the workplace. This revised and updated audio edition of Dr. Leman's classic book includes more than thirty years of experience and research, current examples, and fascinating stories to show how birth order impacts your life. Thousands of people have unlocked the secrets of birth order already. Shouldn't you be one of them?.… (more)
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Mostly I have to say I want to tell Kevin that people are really not that simple. You can't categorise me as a "middle child" or anyone else for that
If you have an unconvential family you will be particularly disappointed as he focuses on the typical 2 or 3 children. As one of 6 I really stuggled to apply much of what he said to my own childhood. I think some generalisations about first children may hold as whatever comes after they do hold a particular place in the family. Even having said that as I'm married to a first born who doesn't fit the mould at all, it looks like he failed again there.
It's kind of insulting to boil us down to a set of characteristics determined by our position in the family, actually pretty preposterous for him to apply his middle class 2-3 children to all of us and expect us to fit his cookie cutter world.
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The style of writing for such a "serious" topic was light and friendly making us all feel as if Dr. Leman was speaking directly to us. Including his own family made3 it more personal however, he did seem to be trying to sell a bunch of other books at the same time. It was a good book for a book club to help getting to know each other better.