6 Middle children are neglected.
Unfortunately, middle children do tend to get less attention from their parents than either their older or younger siblings. While older children tend to need more parental guidance, thanks to their more complicated social lives and never-ending school and extracurricular work, and younger children need to be monitored constantly for safety reasons, middle children inevitably get the short end of the stick in terms of their parents’ attention.
“Middle children are expected to not be a baby any more once a new baby comes along, yet they don’t get attention for achievement nor attention for being youthful, so often they feel low they have no place in the family,” says Krawiec.
