In essay one, Alan Stewart wanted to find out if birth order affected how people act. In essay two, “How Birth Order Affects Your Personality,” the author, Joshua Hartshorne, claims he wants to find out if birth order affects people. They both studied several different studies, but neither of them got a definitive answer. It led both of them back to the very beginning.
Stewart read over five hundred journal entries made by Alfred Adler, the original birth order theorist. Hartshorne briefly read over several articles and book. Both did their own research but got nowhere. This tells me that the whole idea about birth order affecting how we think and act is hard to grasp. These two very intelligent men have the same troubles as the average human being on trying to understand it.
I would agree with Stewart’s theory of there not being a significant persuasion by the order of birth to act and think the way we do. I think we are persuaded more by what we grow up around. If the group of friends we grow up with are into doing bad things, then we will get caught up in those bad things. But, if we grow up with scholarly friends then we will most often want to compete with them. It is a lot about the competition for most people. For a bad group of friends, we compete to be the worst. For a good group of friends, we compete to be the best.
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For a younger child, I would agree that they are usually stronger, mentally and physically, if their older sibling is a boy. For a middle child, I would say the same. But, they also have the added leadership quality due to the younger sibling. For the older child, they are often more mean or protective toward their younger siblings. Finally, for the only child, they are often a leader. But, we see sometimes that they do not have as good of communicating skills as an older, younger, or middle child would