Exploring Our Children’s Potentials

 
Being the middle child in the family is not easy.

First-borns get all the attention, because they are the FIRST child in the family.

The last-born, well .. he/she is the littlest, so naturally many parents choose to go quite easy on him/her, and give the ‘baby in the family’ lots of attention. After all, babies need more care, yes?

As for the middle-borns?

Since they enter the world, they never get their parents’ FULL attention (because the older sister/brother is already there before them).

They never get their parents’ FULL attentionThey are the ‘littlest’ in the family, FOR A WHILE. And when there’s another little one in the family, the middle-born naturally gets LESS time overall (because now the parents’ time and energy need to be split between THREE kids).

So yes, … doing something with a parent (or both) without the siblings, is precious for middle-borns.

So is getting the parents’ uninterrupted listening ears, eg. Because it makes them feel … accepted, and loved.

Not ‘left out’.

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They all are equally loved, and they each need to know and experience itHusband and I still have a LOT to learn in juggling time and energy for all three kids.

In loving, raising and guiding the eldest, the youngest, AND the middle-born in the family.

They all are equally loved, and they each need to know and experience it.

May God help us.