Why we act the way we do according to when we were born in our family.

This is REALLY cool! ( )

A great book on birth order and how it affects personality and other things. Kevin Leman is also a wonderful speaker. ( )

Review located at http://lupabitch.wordpress.com/2007/1... ( )

My feelings about this book swing wildly as I read the different chapters and find some really good stuff in between all the glib generalisations.
Mostly I have to say I want to tell Kevin that people are really not that simple. You can't categorise me as a "middle child" or anyone else for that matter.
If you have an unconvential family you will be particularly disappointed as he focuses on the typical 2 or 3 children. As one of 6 I really stuggled to apply much of what he said to my own childhood. I think some generalisations about first children may hold as whatever comes after they do hold a particular place in the family. Even having said that as I'm married to a first born who doesn't fit the mould at all, it looks like he failed again there.
It's kind of insulting to boil us down to a set of characteristics determined by our position in the family, actually pretty preposterous for him to apply his middle class 2-3 children to all of us and expect us to fit his cookie cutter world. ( )