You've probably heard the term 'middle child syndrome' before. In fact, you may even have been accused of having it. It's the belief that children who are born with both older and younger siblings ...

For Natasha Harding, 49, 'middle-child syndrome' most definitely exists. She shares her experiences of growing up with an ...

The big tropes about Gen-X are “latchkey kids” and “alt-slackers” or something. But while The New York Times recently called ...

My son has “middle child syndrome” despite my exhaustive effort to avoid such a diagnosis. Over the years, I’ve been careful to give my children equally-sized birthday presents and let all three get ...

Does your place in the family shape your personality? A new large-scale study published in PNAS in December 2024 explores how birth order and family size may play a role—and found that middle children ...

Middle children have faced unfair treatment and discrimination based on their birth order for YEARS. They even coined a bogus term about it: "Middle Child Syndrome." Well, children of the middle, ...

In psychology, there is a theory called the ‘middle-child syndrome’. One of the inferences is that the middle child in a family — stuck between the older and younger siblings — feels ...