Show Behavior Childs Child's 1 Research in the field of child psychology now reveals overwhelming overwhelming overwhelming over over- whelming evidence to support the long-held long theory that children's childrens childrens children's childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's behavior can be predicted predicted predicted pre pre- by the order in which they are born bom into a family and is the subject of an in- in depth report in the current issue of PAGEANT Maga Maga- zine WITHIN TIlE THE network of family relationships says the article every child should be given a chance to work out his own identity While he will be affected by many other variables several similar and significant characteristics will appear in the categories of first second and third-born third For example psychologists find that first born children grow close to their parents being the center of attention and treated as companions They quickly learn language and abstract concepts Tending Tending Tending Tend Tend- ing to mature before their time first first-borns are often self-reliant self serious responsible and introverted Social psychologist psychologist psychologist Stanley of Stanford University found that more of these children attain eminence than do their younger siblings Who's Who is s overrun with first-borns first especially scientists and scholars Among the most distinguished are George Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington Shakespeare Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud SECOND CHILDREN strive to unseat their older siblings rebelling in a self-assertive self way at the elders elder's dominance Because of the competitive tive situation these children wor work k harder and are successful in their endeavors Disliking being being being be be- ing bossed they in later life fight against authority And because they share less of their parents time and are more on their own they become become be be- come innovators and breakers breaker g of tradition A last-born last will never be dethroned or sense the apparent apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent loss of parental love so they tend to be optimistic optimistic- As the family baby they are prone to feel inferior always cared for and considered considered considered consid consid- ered incapable of responsibility ity they expect that other people will always help as they go through life AND EVEN more than the middle child the third will rebel and may choose a vocation vocation vocation vo vo- vo- vo cation different from that of any other member of the family Enjoying the limelight they may ultimately go on the stage or enter politics 1 Spending life in co competition with older children 1 A guide to help parents im un and cope with H the e subtle patterns of sibling interplay in- in is included in th the h PAGEANT feature along e a discussion of the relationship relation ship between children and health and psychological dif dif behavior problems problem intelligence and achievement and influence of parental a at |