Is your 1st born child more intelligent than the others?

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According to this article the oldest child has the higher IQ and and the youngest child in the family the lowest.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3729274.ece

Obviously I used agree being the elder child.

However, with my own children not so sure. DS1 seems more 'academic' (lol at 4 yrs) whilst DD aged 2 exhibits a scary criminal intelligence that's more calculated than anything ds can do.

..or is this just pseudo science?

ROFL at your 2-yo DD with "a scary criminal intelligence".

DS1 is more academic.
DS2 has the common sense.

no way. dd1 (my second born) is more intelligent, but lacks common sense. ds1 just doesnt give a sh*t about anything. Struggles with school a bit. I think its a boy thing!

sounds like bolleaux

too many variables i would have thought

DS , first born, very bright, but dyslexic and not academic, DD is shaping up to be leader of the free world, she is feisty !

I am the eldest of 10. I am a total genius (obviously) my youngest sibling is only 6 so not sure yet.

DS has HFA so its hard to tell. i reckon he probably would have a high IQ score, though he has the developmental age of a 4 year old.

DS intelligent but no common sense
DD intelligent, with lots of common sense!

DH is the youngest in his family (4 childen); has a degree and a high powered job, unlike his sister, the eldest who has no qualifications and has wandered from one low-paid, skill-vacuum job to the next, to the next for the last 30 years!

Well I am the eldest so of course it's correct

The personality theory is rubbish. According to a book I've just read by a psychologist who reckons if look across all the studies and do proper statistical analysis the effect of birth order on personality is zip.

Although I'm inclined to believe the IQ stuff, being the eldest sister and having an only child myself.

No not true for us - ds1 is intelligent but so are the others.

ds1 has 'measurable' intelligence in that he was IQ tested as part of an ongoing assessment and has a beautiful mind, incredible depth and intelligence, masked by learning difficulties.
ds2 is a model student, very able, but has no imagination or curiosity about the world.

Who knows why.

I am the youngest of three and the middle child is the least intelligent

I am eldest of 4, so agree in my case.

Out of my DS's, too early to say, but they are both shaping up to be complete geniuses, obviously.

Dd1 is the more serious of my girls.
dd2 is definatley heading for a job with Circ du Solei

My eldest has dyspraxia so finds everything hard, do wonder what he would be like without it, have always said he's clever, he just needs the key to unlock what he has.
DD1 is a brain box as is DD2
DS2 is the youngest child in his class, he's 6 and half and has the reading age of an 11 year old and is extremely clever at all other subjects. So IMO I think its a load of rubbish!

My first DC will definitely do better at school, but my second DC is more likely to invent some freaky gadget it, market it, and become a millionaire. NOT that I'm pigeon-holing them.

Mine are still young but so far DD2 has reached every milestone before DD1 is doing things at 2.2yo DD1 couldn't do at 3.1yo. She is also doing more than 3yos at toddlers.

I'm the oldest and have been to uni whereas my brother has gone from one dead end job to the next (he's 30 and has had at least 50 jobs and been to college about 3 times).

If the research is accurate I would say that all it proves is that IQ tests are not an accurate measure of innate intelligence, but of intelligence as affected by unknown variables in a child's environment, which is what I've always suspected.

I am the fourth of four, and I have the highest IQ - I'm not going to comment on my DCs especially as I suspect they both know my posting name.....

I'm the youngest and academically I've done 'better' than my db (mind you he can teach the sox off me!)

DD is more academic
Ds is kinder and more emotionally intelligent

No. She has had gross and fine motor skills delays from the get go and her younger sister is catching up to her in learning.

lol @ dd's criminal intelligence.

DS1 - academic.

DS2 - completely non-academic. Has high emotional intelligence.

DS3 - not as academic as DS1, but much more so than DS2.

I'm definitely more intelligent than my older brother, of course!

I am youngest and have always been the most academically successful of my family. However, my brother and sisters all have their own talents and are all successful in their own ways.
My own DC are pretty much of equal intelligence IMO, but DS (youngest) doesn't always come across as being as clever as his sister. He is a lazy little git at times.

My older brother is on balance the cleverest of the three of us, but I'm the best at maths.

But with my children it's not true - DD1 is very capable academically, but DD2 is some kind of whizz at school. DS is too young to tell.

I think it's probably true in a statistical way, but not in individual cases.
DC too young to compare intelligence, but the other stuff they said about personality, weight, etc. isn't right at the moment for my DC. Some of it holds true when I think of friends (now in their 30s) who came from large families. The way we raise children now is so different from my generation, though, that I suspect many other factors will alter the thus-far observed trends.

I am the eldest, so naturally the research is true.
As far as my children go, they have strengths and weaknesses in different areas so it isn't fair to compare.
But DD2's charm and hardworking nature will take her far even though she is not as quick to pick things up as her sisters. DD1 is very academic but shy and serious. DD3 is very bright and as naughty as a barrelful of monkeys.
I don't know which attributes are likely to make them happiest or which child you would define as most 'intelligent'.

My youngest has been noticeably more intelligent than the others from a very early age (they are all quite bright but he is in a different league).