There is nothing more interesting than when I am treating patients from the same family. It is especially interesting when I am treating the first two children.
The Firstborn wants to follow all the rules and gets very upset when they feel they are not doing everything right.
The second born wants to know everything I am doing and why.
They want to protect their own space. These two children want to be different from each other.
This is where the words sibling rivalry came from.
We don’t have to look far for examples.
The Bible tells the story of Cain and Able and that didn’t end well for either of them. Able was killed and Cain was banished to the wilderness.
Sometimes the second child dethrones the first-born.
We saw that in the TV show Everyone Loves Raymond where the younger sibling Raymond dethroned his older brother. This happens more often than anyone cares to admit and it changes the dynamic in the family.
I can see this happening with my patients when the two children’s attitudes completely switch. The First born stumbles, struggles in school and can just drop out if he is becomes demoted.
I am Dr. Robert Hurst author of Life’s Fingerprint: How Birth Order Affects Your Path Throughout Life. I am an Orthodontist and have been observing my patients for over 50 years seeing how their birth orders affected their lives.
I would like to share with you how I use birth order to help my patient’s see who they are and why they act the way, they do.