Kim Nam Ha/ Page 24, item B-2/ 2017 Summer 56

 

Youngest child can be spoiled because they get most of the love and care from their parents and siblings. These kind of attention makes youngest child learn to adapt to manipulate other people to achieve their goals and really depends on other people to solve their problems in order to achieve their goals. Children of youngest birth order lives their life with less pressure from the duties that must be done which can be general ways in the family hierarchy. However youngest can be independent and nurturing due to several circumstances.

 

I am the youngest child of my house hold and cannot deny that depending on my family more than my older sister does. My thought of being youngest is that because my parents always take care of my problems and hovering over me, I use my family position as a weapon and believed that was not a big deal. I do not have to put efforts into obtain what I wishes for or I can easily deny the obligation that I must do. But in my opinion, the family hierarchy does not make all the person's characteristic.

I agree part of the idea that children get influenced a lot in their parents and their siblings but that is not all that matters. I thought not only the family hierarchy, cultural background, environmental issue, or religion or the policy to which that is can be very effective in every world' house and it is very certain. For example, I had a childhood time in foreign country alone. Neither of my family nor my older sister affected my childhood. In my first attempt of getting along with the guardians is that I had to hide my feelings and had to be mature not to bother 'others'. I no longer had that youngest benefits that I must learn to survive myself alone in the dark. Later I became confident and nurture and I became quickly as an adult, compromising and sharing my stuff with people who I lived together who are not my family.

 

I believe the author's discussion applies more to the typical family in the united states than to families in general. Every child grow up by the effects of their guardian or the birth order and other surrounding circumstances. The thesis that were handled in the discussion are quite true but the youngest can be as a responsible, confident, parental one.