Any there any good things about being the middle child?

[Lelophants]

Just curious really and not thinking about having a third child 😳

My middle def the golden one. especially according to the others High achiever in sport, work, has a really great life.

Other sibs look to Middle for wisdom and advice and will take the truth from them over anyone (including me)

DH is the middle of six and felt still feels invisible.
I'm the eldest and made all the mistakes, which younger siblings learned from.

I'm going to ask my second eldest now.
He said - give me a second I need to pee.
We will have wisdom shortly.....
Ok. So what are you asking me?
You're good at parenting soooo, I guess the only bad thing is usually the younger sibling, if you do anything to him, they tell you off, I barely even did anything to you. And sometimes, well, you don't exist. You're good at parenting so it doesn't really suck. People take your charger wire, that's really annoying.

Youngest says....
Bad.
He's five so he says this a lot when most questions are asked.

Eldest is still in bed so can't ask.

I'm the middle of 7.

I was invisible - which didn't go well because I got into all sorts of trouble to try and get my parent's attention.

Good things were I had big siblings to look up to, and was young enough to escape having to look after the younger ones. I was never lonely. Always had someone to look out for me.

Middle child is different if they’re the opposite gender to oldest and youngest.

i.e. I was number 3 of 4, but felt like the only middle child. Eldest was a girl but spoilt being first born, youngest was a girl but spoilt being the youngest, second born was a boy so spoilt being the only boy, I was the middle girl.

In fairness, I never felt different.

I don’t think where you’re born in the family makes any difference. Far too many other factors involved.

With good parenting I think it would be ok. My experience as a middle was/is shit

always sitting in the middle in the car, never next to a window

This made me laugh as the youngest’s most consistent complaint is that she always has to sit in the middle in the car because she’s the smallest. Once they outgrow car seats it’s about whose head you can see over the easiest

Same here . Absolutely no problem for me or my middle child.

Love all the middle children I know. They seem to be the most chilled & kind.

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Yes, as the youngest of 3 I relate to this! I never got to sit in the front either.. it was always "no, name is older than you, they sit in the front". Always thought it was unfair because i was never going to be the older one. Or at least, by the time I was old enough (siblings off doing their own thing or moved out), I couldn't care less anymore! Overall though, my parents have always been good at trying to be fair with things that really matter, to all three of us. If one of us got money, the other two would be gifted the same amount.