How birth order affects personality and how the new royal baby could be the party child
Whether you are the firstborn, middle child or youngest in the family, some psychologists say it can have a big impact on your personality and behaviour
THE Duchess of Cambridge has gone into labour and we will soon have a new little prince or princess.
The baby will be Kate and Wills’ third child after Prince George, four, and Princess Charlotte, two, and it has been suggested that birth order can dramatically affect your personality.
According to Dr Kevin Leman, who wrote The Birth Order Book: Why You Are The Way You Are, third or last born children are the most “sociable and outgoing”.
They tend to be the most free-spirited due to the parents’ increasingly carefree approach to parenting.
They are also the most financially irresponsible of all birth orders and can be manipulative but charming.
The psychologist believes that the youngest members of the household are forced to use their minds to get their own way in the family, even though the eldest are often considered the smartest.
Meanwhile first born kids like Prince George tend to do well at winning the hearts of older people and typically are high achievers.
"And yet, despite a consistent stream of research, results remained inconclusive and controversial.”
We previously shared how a study found that the eldest child is officially the most intelligent
and each successive sibling is slightly less bright.
And first-born children are 10 per cent more likely to be short-sighted than their younger siblings.