Parent's Birth Order (V1)

So, just how does your order of birth affect your parenting? One typical force at work is the tendency for a parent to over-identify with the child in the same birth-order position. This can lead to putting too much pressure on the child or spoiling or favoring the child. When I interacted with our first three children while they were growing up, whose antics did I enjoy the most? Kevin Il our baby, of course. For example, when Holly was 13, and Krissy was 11, and they would complain to me about 7-year-old Kevin and his pestering ways, I would say, "Well, girls, let's remember he's the baby of the family. Little baby brothers do that kind of thing to sisters." I identified with Kevin. Do you think Holly and Krissy picked up on that? You bet they did.