Middle Child Day

So here we are... the two middle children in the Frank Wiggins family. I'm afraid Charles got the brunt of the "middle child syndrome" because I was fortunate enough to be the only girl. A Stanford University study showed that middles are considered the most envious, least bold, and least talkative of all the birth orders. And I can assure you that Charles and I have never been accused of not being talkative. I was never bold, but I think Charles probably was and I imagine we both were envious. 

An article in Psychology Today stated,"Middles are flexible, team-builders, independent, yet also social. They don’t need to be micromanaged. They would make good teachers, actors, social workers, diplomats—but would not be so good at work where they’re isolated. Empathy can cause them stress—they’d make good defense lawyers, but not good prosecutors." Actually we all ended up as teachers and a preacher, but I know that of the four of us, Charles and I are the most empathetic, sometimes to a fault. But now in our old age we recognize that being middle children shaped who we are today. And since there's absolutely nothing we could have done about it, it just doesn't matter. It probably would have helped if we'd known about this syndrome when we were younger, but I feel we're just lucky to have been born into the family we were. And, although I couldn't say this when I was a kid, I love all my brothers now!