Middle Child Syndrome [mid-l chahyld sin-drohm]:
noun

1) When a middle child – typically in a family of three kids (OR nine) who are close in age – feels left out or neglected.

NOTE: Because the older sibling is the first born and typically an over-achiever, they are the most important and therefore get the most privileges. A younger sibling is the ‘baby’ of the family and gets away with more as well as being the most looked-after. Middle-child syndrome starts when the middle child is squeezed between these two and has trouble finding their ‘niche’ in the family.

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But what happens when you have the eldest who’s nearly the shortest, and the youngest acting as the most mature; how could the middle child be anything LIKE a victim of Middle Child Syndrome?

It’s simple.  It’s because she’s not.  And this my friends is what we call: a paradox.

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