«Middle Child Syndrome» is a psychological label for the empirical observation that
middle children often do not receive as much parental attention as first and last - born siblings.
Consequently,
middle children often seem better able to cope with change and pressure than are their older siblings.
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The middle child often feels left out and a sense of, «Well, I'm not the oldest.
Not exact matches
I work in a healthcare facility and I can't tell you how
often I hear my deeply religious patients honestly suggesting that we just nuke all of the
middle east — women,
children, included.
And the people of the
Middle East
often looked upon the meaning of the name of a
child as a prediction or prophecy for what kind of person that
child would grow up to be.
I've
often wondered why god puts some souls into
children to be born with AIDS in the
middle of a civil war in Africa, and some
children in healthy bodies in places like Beverly HIlls, CA.
Parents in their
middle years also feel a wide gap between themselves and their senior citizen parents who
often become emotionally dependent on their
middle - aged «
children.»
For another, as most of her
middle - aged informants make clear, the type of father involvement allowed by the doctrine of separate spheres was too thin (and
often too authoritarian) to contribute very positively to the development of
children and wives, even though it underwrote men's own masculine status as breadwinners.
The third period
often occurs during the
middle years — the forties and fifties — when the exodus of the
children confronts the couple with their own relationship, in the context of their feelings about aging.
I have found dinner ideas on walks, rocking babies in the
middle of the night, and while eavesdropping on other people's conversations in line at the gas station, but I have
often found moments of great insight in
children's books.
Mashed potatoes are
often the overlooked
middle child of the Thanksgiving table.
We want students in
middle school and high school to be able to persevere, to be resilient, to be tenacious when faced with obstacles — but we don't
often stop to consider the deep roots of those skills, the steps that every
child must take, developmentally, to get there.
Parents in divorced families will
often both try to be the
child's confidante, and the
child gets stuck painfully in the
middle.
I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for
middle class families who care deeply about their
child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor
children who, through no fault of their own and
often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.
More
often than I'd like to admit, I left a cartful of groceries in the
middle of the aisle to run out to the car, or ducked into a bedroom, or surveyed a building upon arrival to find a hidden place to nurse, or lugged around an extra 15 lbs of bottles, pumped milk and ice, or made my crying, hungry
child wait for a bottle to warm.
In more modern families,
children are
often given the first or last name of a grandparent for a
middle name.
For some reason, rousing a
child first
often breaks the cycle of waking in the
middle of the night.
And, it's always helpful for moms to go to bed at an earlier time because
children often get up in the
middle of the night for different reasons.
Bullying occurs more
often in the
middle school and early teen years because kids are transitioning from being a
child to an adolescent.
Often the pain wakes a
child up in the
middle of the night.
When parents put
children in the
middle of their conflict and use them as messengers, sounding - boards, or spies,
children often become depressed and angry and may develop behavioural problems.
Study after study after study seem to insist that being a
middle child forces you into a grouping of stereotyped neglected
children that are
often overlooked by parents or overshadowed by older siblings.
Study after study after study seem to insist that being a
middle child forces you into a grouping of stereotyped neglected
children that are
often overlooked by parents or... more
Illness
often is the reason why
children wake up crying in the
middle of the night as pain and discomfort can disrupt sleep.
Those
children who enter a Waldorf school in the
middle grades
often bring much information about the world.
If your
child tends to wet the bed,
often has a leaky diaper, or gets up to go potty in the
middle of the night, it is a good idea to limit liquids of all kinds after dinner time.
Studies show that breastfed
children don't get sick as
often as formula - fed
children — and that means fewer upper respiratory,
middle ear, and gastrointestinal infections.
Given the relatively young ages of
children at follow - up assessment, longer term evaluations of these cohorts will be important to see if these findings remain as
children enter the more behaviourally challenging late
middle childhood and adolescent years when emotional and behavioural problems
often become more pronounced.
One issue parents
often don't address until they have no choice — because their
children are bouncing off the walls in the
middle of the night and zonked at noon — is jet lag.
Now, her plan for the city creates decent - paying jobs by supporting small business and tech companies in neighborhoods that are
often ignored; expands pre-K and
child care; and builds 80,000 units of good
middle class housing.
«It is apparent now, more than ever, that the
children are more
often than not caught in the
middle when it comes to families in crisis.
Mental Illness Across the Ages: From
Children, to Adolescents, to
Middle Aged and the Elderly [September 30, 2015] Mental illness is a brain disorder that
often results in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.
(Antibiotic use, the researchers note, is widespread in low - and
middle - income countries, with
children often getting more than two dozen treatments by age 2.)
Yes, this stage is when
children are
often introduced to the world, which Fuller believes — as precious and wonderful as
children are — is like placing a hand grenade into the
middle of a relationship.
Given that November is
often the
middle child of holidays we've decided to flip the paradigm and devote an entire month to this glorious day of eating (because we're a foodie company and #priorities).
As the
middle child, I was an overachiever, a perfectionist, and praised for it
often.
It's an unfortunate reality for parents: When your baby or
child wakes up in the
middle of the night,
often, so do you.
As a work - at - home momma homeschooling three
children, I
often think «stress» could be my
middle name.
For newcomers, Dead Rising 2 is the
often overlooked
middle child in the original Dead Rising trilogy.
, our protagonist is in
middle school and must face the rash insensitivity that
children are
often capable of.
While criticisms against Anderson are
often levelled against his upper
middle - class bias and his man -
child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.
Many of the suburban,
middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their
children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing,
often private, schools.
Donaldson says that TFA is
often looked at like a «volunteer experience for upper,
middle - class college graduates at the expense of working class
children.»
Such may be the case for
children from
middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is
often a time of emptiness and tedium.
For good or ill, elementary teachers can have a major effect on individual
children, while
middle - and high - school teachers see more students less
often, affecting four or five times as many students in a less time - intensive, more subject - specific way.
Yet quality pre-K is especially important for
children from disadvantaged backgrounds, who
often lack the exposure to literature, reading and numeracy that is common in
middle - and upper - income homes: It can help ensure that these kids don't show up to kindergarten already far behind other students.
Incredible in life, perhaps the most disturbing truth of all about Diane Kaplan Devries» work is the uncomfortable fact that so many elected officials,
often led by so - called Democrats, immorally and unethically sought to throw up barriers to stop Diane's critical effort to make sure that Connecticut's
children got the education they needed, while ensuring that Connecticut's
middle income property taxpayers were treated more fairly.
Our school atmosphere is friendly and the dress code and single gender classes eliminate much of the peer pressure
middle school
children often deal with.
Children in
middle to later elementary grades are more cognizant, using the prefrontal cortex more
often to think and solve problems, so learning looks a bit more academically oriented, however we still need to keep all those neurons firing because that
child is still learning and the brain is still developing.
Children of poverty move more
often than
middle - class students.