![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Writer's Block: Pecking Order
Aug. 19th, 2009 06:09 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]Middle, not counting my idiot half-brother and half-sister in their forties who have more issues than The Times.
I've always been the classic middle child; the peacemaker, the one always too old or too young to do what my brothers and sisters were doing; the one caught between wanting to act silly with the younger ones, or mature with the olders ones. The one... um, in the middle. I have four full siblings - an older brother (Paul), an older sister (Jennifer), a younger brother (Adam) and a younger sister (Rachael), so I know what it's like to have all four types. It sort of worked to my advantage to be the middle child at one point, because my mum used to preface everything with, 'Poor Becky never gets anything, being the middle child...' so I'd get the extra ice-cream, or the first go of a new toy, much to the rage of my siblings.
My elder siblings are, strangely enough, quite gentle and less headstrong than the younger ones, so I never really was subjected to older sibling tyranny. I did, however, boss the younger two around and probably still do.
I've always been the classic middle child; the peacemaker, the one always too old or too young to do what my brothers and sisters were doing; the one caught between wanting to act silly with the younger ones, or mature with the olders ones. The one... um, in the middle. I have four full siblings - an older brother (Paul), an older sister (Jennifer), a younger brother (Adam) and a younger sister (Rachael), so I know what it's like to have all four types. It sort of worked to my advantage to be the middle child at one point, because my mum used to preface everything with, 'Poor Becky never gets anything, being the middle child...' so I'd get the extra ice-cream, or the first go of a new toy, much to the rage of my siblings.
My elder siblings are, strangely enough, quite gentle and less headstrong than the younger ones, so I never really was subjected to older sibling tyranny. I did, however, boss the younger two around and probably still do.
