
Surviving and Thriving at Parenting with Dr. Becky & Nate Berkus
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Is There Something at Birth Order and Mental Health?
I think the thing that's most striking is like your second child is born into the world in a family where someone has already started to carve out who they are. And so they are wiring their own body around that siblings dynamics. You have a kid who's super outgoing or super impulsive, right? Well, there's only so much of any trait to go around in a system. So you are actually trying to figure out who you are relative to that person. I can't imagine it's like these kids, first kids, second kids, third kids, you know, kind of quote, do better or do worse as a whole.
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