If you are one of three, did you feel left out ( or that a sibling was always left out)?

[Anonymous]

I was the middle of 3 and always left out. I feel like that had more to do with the personality of the eldest who did not like me and excluded me on purpose, not just because we were a family with 3 kids. Sometimes I wondered if we had another sibling would I be less left out or would the eldest get them to try and exclude me too. I think it is more about the children's personality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was never left out but both my siblings were at times. I'm the middle so closer in age to each of them than they are to each other, but I also think our personalities were just such that, regardless of age, I'd have gotten along better with each of them than they would with each other. Still that way as adults. My two kids have a great thing going and we don't want to mess that up so we are stopping at two.

Funny--I was about to give this an enthusiastic +1 and then realized it is an old post so I think I actually wrote this.

[Anonymous]

I was the youngest of 3 for 12 years, until my mother had another child. I felt left out, for sure. My older siblings are only 11 months apart and I'm a few years behind. My parents both worked full time by the time I was in first grade, so we were latchkey kids...it sucked, honestly; I was beat up, ignored, etc. But I think if kids have proper supervision (which we obviously did not), you have a better chance of raising a cohesive brood.

[Anonymous]

Yes, always.

I have twin brothers four years younger than me so it was always mom & dad, the twins, and me.

Fortunately, my mom let my best friend tag along to most family outings and vacations.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on birth order as to whether you felt left out. My middle sister never felt left out. It's was always either the two younger ones ganging up on the oldest or the two older ones ganging up on the youngest. That was only when we were younger than 10 though. I wouldn't change things now.