![]() Sometimes gender roles can even influence one’s experience as a middle child. It isn’t always easy to treat all children equally while still providing each child with the attention they need. I’m grateful for the foundation they laid for me but I’m also grateful for the courage I had to be different.” They were figuring it out and doing their best. I’m now a parent at the same age they were when I was a child. She adds, “I would like to add that my parents are amazing! They are pastors in Alabama. They were trying to get me back on their path but I just never could quite catch that rhythm they were trying to teach me.” By the time they realized that they couldn’t just parent us all the same way, I had forged my own path. “It’s just kind of weird being in the middle. “He was the boy they both wanted so he was like a prize to them,” she says. However, things really changed when her baby brother was born. Chestnut’s parents also tried to parent her the same way they did her older sister, which made her feel misunderstood and caused her to act out in hopes of getting personalized attention. She began feeling left out when she noticed the bond her parents had with her older sister. She is a middle child, the second of three children, including her younger brother and older sister. ![]() Chestnut, a project manager in Dallas, tells ESSENCE. “I think middle children are the most misunderstood,” Coleysia C. Sometimes stereotypes are lived realities. You know, the ones about them being ignored, misinterpreted, or the black sheep of the family. There are stereotypes about middle children that many of us have likely heard. These special humans can easily be overlooked because the focus is often on the oldest or the youngest children. ![]() It’s National Middle Child day, a time to honor all the kids who weren’t born first, weren’t born last, but fall somewhere in between. ![]()
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