Middle Child Day
August 12 · Level 1 · #2140 of 2238
A day for everyone squeezed between an older and a younger sibling who sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. It is a reminder that middle children deserve their share of attention and praise.
How it is celebrated: parents spend one-on-one time with their middle kid, cook their favourite meal or give a small gift, while grown-up middle children joke online about their lifelong role as family peacemaker.
The idea that birth order firmly shapes personality is hugely popular, yet large scientific studies have found surprisingly little evidence for it.