Citations:middleborn

English citations of middleborn

Adjective: "born as the middle child to a parent or family"

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• 1996 — Gary Smalley, Making Love Last Forever, Thomas Nelson (1996), →ISBN, page 182:

  On the positive side, middleborn children are good negotiators and adaptable; they often feel little need to "control."

• 2006 — Kevin Leman, Single Parenting That Works: Six Keys to Raising Happy, Healthy Children in a Single-Parent Home, Tyndale (2006), →ISBN, page 88:

  Chances are very strong that the rebel in your family was a middleborn child.

• 2012 — Jonathan Caspi, Sibling Aggression: Assessment and Treatment, Springer Publishing Company (2012), →ISBN, page 37:

  The middleborn child is the outsider in this form of sibling triangle and has less power in the family than the lastborn who is supported by the firstborn.

Noun: "the middle child to be born to a parent or family"

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• 1986 — G. Hugh Allred, Teenager: A Survival Guide for Mom and Dad, Bookcraft (1986), →ISBN, page 36:

  A middleborn who feels left out may become unsure about his place in the family.

• 1998 — Bill McKibben, Maybe One, Anchor (1999), →ISBN, page 44:

  Middleborns and only children score about the same, but for different reasons.

• 2009 — Kevin Leman, The Birth Order Book: Why You Are The Way You Are, Revell (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Yes, I realize that you may be a middleborn who thinks your siblings got all the privileges or the breaks or the spoiling while you had to toe the mark.