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Birth Order

Does Loving Differently Mean Loving Better?

Christine Organ | Posted 04.11.2013 | Parents
Christine Organ

Does different treatment necessarily mean better or worse treatment? Do different interactions mean that one child is a favorite? And, god forbid, does different love inherently mean better love?

It's Hard Being the Youngest

Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 12.22.2012 | Parents
Bruce Reyes-Chow

So win or lose, regardless of what her older sisters have done in the past, today is Youngest's day... hers, all hers.

How Firstborns and Secondborns Compare

Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D. | Posted 09.29.2012 | Healthy Living
Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.

People have long been fascinated with birth order and how it shapes our lives; and recent research indicates that first- and secondborns do indeed see the world differently in ways that impact their motivation and likelihood of career and personal success.

Birth Order Survey Yields Big Surprise About Who Is Financially Responsible

Posted 04.09.2012 | Science

By: Chad Brooks, BusinessNewsDaily Contributor Published: 04/09/2012 08:01 AM EDT on BusinessNewsDaily While studies have long shown the role th...

5 Ways To Think About Personality Types

Delia Lloyd | Posted 04.25.2012 | Healthy Living
Delia Lloyd

If you pay someone to advise you on changing careers these days, the very first thing they'll likely do is administer a personality test to see what career paths you're suited to. So, how should we think about personality types?

Loving One Kid More Than Another During the Holidays?

Barbara Greenberg | Posted 02.19.2012 | Parents
Barbara Greenberg

In 2009, David Lawson and Ruth Maco, two professors from the UK, published a study of 14,000 families. And yep, it appears that parents have favorites despite their protests to the contrary.

Birth Order And Personality: What Does It All Mean?

Hayley Krischer | Posted 11.28.2011 | Parents
Hayley Krischer

Studies from the past three years show that birth order determines IQ and our personality traits. If this is so, then how do sibling rivalries shake out in stepfamilies when birth order becomes an issue?

Five Facts About Siblings

Delia Lloyd | Posted 11.26.2011 | Parents
Delia Lloyd

Sibling relationships are vitally important in shaping who we are and how we behave.

The Secret Bond That Sisters Share

Deborah Tannen | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Deborah Tannen

A sister is someone with whom you can laugh and be silly like when you were kids; who still sees in you the child you were; who shares your past and your memories of it.

Birth Order: Fun To Debate, But How Important?

nytimes.com | PERRI KLASS, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Everyone takes it personally when it comes to birth order. After all, everyone is an oldest or a middle or a youngest or an only child, and even as ad...

How Your Birth Order Shapes Your Personality

divinecaroline.com | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Are you a very neat person? Do you try to color coordinate your clothes? Love making lists? There's a good chance you're first born in your family bir...

There's One in Every Family.... Part 2

Jordan M. Atin | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Jordan M. Atin

Although you think you really know your siblings, you may be wrong.