10 Middle children have a hard time finding their place.
Neither the family leader nor the baby, middle children do often test out a wide variety of identities before settling on one that fits. While it may stem from their older and younger siblings getting pigeonholed by parents or a desire to get some extra attention, middle children often seem like a different person on a weekly basis. “They seek to find interests that don’t already belong to other family members making them feel foreign to their parents and themselves isolated and secretive,” explains Krawiec.
