How to Plan Your Family Using Birth Order

                   

Birth order affects all aspects of your life. It starts 

with the very beginning of life…..Birth

In today’s society you can plan your births or adoptions 

and in so doing structure your family in a variety of 

ways. The birth number and spacing between siblings 

will affect their personalities. Using Birth Order can let 

you know what the future holds before you add a birth

to your family or adopt a child.

       

The First Born

The first child starts life as an Only child.  As parents, 

the two of you can hover over this child and address his

every need. He can become very adult like or very 

spoiled as he or she gets anything and everything they 

want. We see them in the characters they played as

the children in Willy Wonka and he Chocolate Factory. 

Charlie was adult like, the others spoiled. This child

loses his exalted status with the addition of the next 

child; sometimes a very difficult transition. 

      

  

Spacing the Second Sibling

Your next decision in adding to your family is to decide

on the spacing of the Second sibling. If you wait less 

than 4 years you will be building a family of interacting

children. Each successive sibling interacts with the 

others for a group of children each playing their own 

birth order role within the family.      

  

The Interactive Family

With less than 4 years between births you get an  

interactive family. You have the bossy #1 telling the 

others what to do. The number 2 that doesn't want to 

be told what to do. The number 3 that stirs the pot 

but stays outside the sibling rivalry of the first two, 

and number 4, the baby that everyone ignores so 

has to be loud just to be noticed. Each child can 

help the younger one through the process of toilet 

training an d school. Everyone has their role to play 

in the family.          

 

Spacing 4 or more years                                     

You do have a second choice. Space your children 

four or more years apart. Because of this spacing, 

you add the Only birth order to these children. This 

happens because this child spends time at home 

alone with a parent while the older sibling is at school. 

You might have decided to do this so you could focus

your attention on each child and not be overwhelmed 

during those developmental years...one through four..

that take so much hands on attention.

  

The Affect of a Double Birth Order

For those that space their children 4 or more years

apart, they add the Only birth order to each of their

birth numbers. This gives these children 10 times 

the power of a single birth order child. You end up 

with individual families of one child each. They do 

not interact like the closely spaced family but each 

child does have a birth order that the Only birth 

order amplifies, magnifies, and intensifies his birth 

order characteristics.              

   

Examples of these Double birth orders are

1/0  Sylvester Stallone,  Oprah, Barack Obama

        Bill Clinton

2/0  David Letterman, Ellen DeGeneres, 

        Britney Spears

3/0 Suzanne Somers, Alfred Hitchcock, Dr. Phil                                    

4/0 Jodie Foster, Don Knotts, Billy Carter

       Mitt Romney 

Whichever plan you chose you can now know what     

 to expect with multiple children in your family.

Like your Fingerprint: Your birth order is who 

you really are.                     

For more information on Birth Orders and Double

Birth Orders visit www.mybirthoder.com or buy

The book Life’s Fingerprint: How Birth Order Affects

Your Path Throughout Life   by Dr. Robert V.V. Hurst