Having studied Dr. Kevin Leman’s works on Birth Order for about 20 years now, I’ve come to the following conclusion:
Everett, our oldest son at 18, is a perfectionist First Born – with discouraged perfectionist tendencies, McKenzie, our 16-year-old daughter, is an all out First Born over-achieving perfectionist. Greyson (although he could be another First Born being 7 years younger than his older sister) has firmly planted himself into the Middle Child/Second Born slot (safe place to be, I guess), and Miss Chaeli, despite being the Baby – is probably our most Over Achieving First Born with very few perfectionist tendencies (she’s a “try my hardest at everything I do kid”.)
Interestingly, if Greyson had “chosen” the path of a First Born, we’d have a HOUSE full of them, since both Tony and I are First Borns as well… craziness! LOL!
My Sweet Hunny, Tony, is definitely like Ev, a perfectionist with discouraged perfectionist tendencies (if he can’t do it JUST right, he puts it off altogether… although he’s working on that and has made vast improvements in his natural procrastinating tendencies in the past few years – LOL!)
And what am I? I am like Kenzi, an over-achieving (read: take on WAYYY too much! LOL!), Perfectionist (HYPER critical of my work). I’m working at realising my limitations and just trying to be satisfied with doing my very best and leaving it at that. I’m a work in progress. LOL!
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