Discussion: Birth Order Impact on Personality

After completing this weeks readings, explain how birth order impacts an individuals personality. Generally, what particular qualities does a first-born child have? The last born child? Does an only child possess certain personality aspects that we might not observe in children who have siblings? Are there ways to generate or facilitate certain qualities in children, based on birth order theories? In other words, can parents use birth order findings in order to manufacture an environment for the child that facilitates certain qualities without the actual siblings in the theories? at least 2 citations