the.com/middle child
the unphotographed witness to a family that ran out of camera battery.
means The child born between the eldest and youngest siblings, often stereotyped as the overlooked or neglected one squeezed in the family hierarchy.
from A plain English compound of "middle" (from Old English "middel," the central part) and "child" (Old English "cild," a young person). The literal sense — the kid in the middle of the birth order — is old and obvious, but the loaded sense of the put-upon, attention-starved middle child is a modern flourish, popularized by 20th-century birth-order psychology, which turned a mere ordinal position into a whole personality.
- baby book
- Theirs is mostly blank pages and good intentions
- diplomat
- Becomes family negotiator by sheer survival instinct
- the research
- Studies link middle kids to stronger peer loyalty
- name swap
- Parents cycle through three names before landing right
- birth order
- Term coined by Alfred Adler over a century ago
jan brady — the brady bunch character constantly overlooked between older marcia and younger cindy, aired 1969-1974
prince harry — born 1984, sandwiched between prince william and younger siblings in british royal line
jim carrey — actor born 1962, middle of three children in his family