First Born Child Analysis

I tend to over analyze every situation and put too much pressure on myself to excel. I am a motivated individual who believes in working hard to achieve my goals. I can often get lost in a crowd and will often trust people too easily to a fault. I try to be friendly to everyone and I am not quick to judge. I am unselfish and try to put others before myself.

The documentary Babies by Thomas Balmès is a film that takes place in four very different locations around the world. The documentary follows four babies and their families from when they are first born as they grow up and are able to walk. We watch Ponijao grow up in Namibia, Bayar grow up in Mongolia, Hattie grow up in San Francisco, and Mari grow up in Tokyo. Because the babies are from such different places, the documentary allows us to see what it is like growing up in cultures that we are currently unfamiliar with. The film opens up your eyes to the various forms of living in other areas around the world. In this paper, I will discuss the universal themes I noticed, my personal reflection of the film, the various

According to Alfred Adler, the birth order of the children in a family will largely affect how they age and the personalities which they will form. First borns enter the family as the only child. They revel in the love and full attention from their parents, that is, until the second baby comes along. Suddenly, first borns are dethroned and lose the undivided attention they are used to receiving. As a result, they tend to develop a strong sense of responsibility and protectiveness over their siblings at an early age, which often leads to them becoming authoritative adults. Moreover, when there are multiple children in the family, parents will set high

M. Farouk Radwan, MSc., notes that first-born children who are used to getting all of the attention until the second child arrives may develop feelings of jealousy because they blame their younger sibling for their dethronement. If properly developed, the first born can acquire positive qualities like strong leadership traits and being responsible. However, poor development can lead older siblings to manifest jealousy or

The first-born children are given a great amount of attention since birth because as temporary only children… they earn all the spoils (Weller, 2015). First-time parents are extra-cautious as it is their first experience with raising a child. Parents tend to be

however with support and hard work from my team members we won the first ever medal for the team. I find it difficult to work under tight deadlines and so I have a habit to plan out things, prioritize them and then solve them one by one. I have always been the greatest critic of myself. I introspect a lot, analyse my mistakes and try to work over them. I am a quick observer of things and people’s behaviour. This really helps me to understand the other person’s state of mind and I steer the conversation accordingly. As a result I am not really comfortable with strangers who are difficult to predict and this is one area where I would like to work on in the future. I also don’t like to look at things from a distance and give any arbitrary solution. I try to understand the core of the problem and try to look beyond the obvious.

My classmates, peers, and friends would describe me as diligent, focused, and friendly. Diligence shows the most when I’m doing something that I love or something that I want to complete. I show diligence every day at ballet, along with my hard work at school. Diligence shows not only because I know that I am expected to perform well, but also to impress myself. I find myself constantly looking at my work and finding all the miniscule details that bother me, even if it isn’t necessary. I tend to show my focused side more when I’m at school, ballet, or when I am under pressure. With my focused mindset, I find myself getting more done, and helping others out in any way possible. Finally, friendliness appears when I’m with classmates or meeting new people. If I’m participating in an event or something that I enjoy, my friendliness helps counter my fear of meeting new people, therefore making experiences more likeable.

Later in life, when I grew up as an adult, being the firstborn gave me more time to experience life and learn the different reactions of the bad and good things. I was able to learn valuable life lessons earlier, and apply them. I became more reliable and responsible. After I had my son, I was able to start doing things myself and become a responsible parent. I am now more hardworking than I have ever been and still inspire to just like my parents- responsible, hardworking, caring, capable and

I am first born in my family which mean I should be cautious, controlling and an achiever. I do not see myself as any of these, in fact my brother fits this description more than me. I think I have more traits of an only child last born. In my opinion I feel the rolls would be flipped. The oldest is more of an attention seeker because they are use to having all the attention, they had to find friends rather that being born into having a friend making us outgoing and it is not like the oldest has never manipulated their younger siblings into thinking that they were adopted. The youngest is more cautious because they have seen the consequences the oldest has gotten from doing something bad, which would also make them the achiever of the family after seeing what their sibling have already done they have the chance to one up the

I choose this passage because I thought it evidently portrayed the theme of Parent child. Here we can see that Miriam is sacrificing herself for Laila and her children, and take the blame of murder.Although they weren’t related, they have became loyal to each other and supported each other in hard times. For example, Mariam has killed Rasheed. Laila doesn’t blame her and call her a murderer, instead, she helps dispose of the body and even wants, insists on taking part of the blame. To begin with, Mariam was like a mother figure for Laila. Laila’s mother wasn’t much of a mother when she was alive. She was always worried about her sons and was in a state of depression for most of the time she was alive. While Miriam was filling this role of her

June 12, 2013 Long Island Jewish Hospital 2:20 p.m. a new edition to the Dandeniya family was born. Seth Semika Dandeniya the new born baby looked up and made the cutest smile in the whole entire world. Therefore Chanul Dandeniya and Thirandi Dandeniya (Chanul’s sister) standed

I display an upbeat, positive outlook and pleasant manner under even the most trying circumstances. I have a calm personality to keep an even attitude. I am able to manage own time, prioritizes tasks by importance and deadline, identifies resources to achieve goals and deliverables. I am also able to adjust priorities as situations change. I make reasonable estimates of resource needs to achieve goals or complete projects.

While some believe in miracles and others do not, Albert Einstein said it best when he claimed “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” This quote holds true by looking at those faced with life-changing events. On April 27, 2014, 16 people were killed by violent tornadoes in Arkansas. When interviewed, most of the survivors thanked God for saving them. He or she thanked God for giving him or her the opportunity to survive. On the other side of the issue, people have a tough time trusting God after a school shooting or mass murder sprees. Many feel betrayed that God would take loved ones away and not prevent the incident. How can one believe in God if

I am smart but sometimes do really stupid things; like writing this sentence in a job

Paulhus, Trapnell, and Chen (1999) researched, “Across four diverse data sets first borns were nominated as most achieving and more conscientious later borns were nominated as most rebellious, liberal and agreeable.” (482). The different treatment of children by their parents varies on the order the child was born i.e. first borns must deal with a new competitor entering the family, with an addition of a sibling they are no longer the center of their parent’s attention, they no longer receive the praise they were given unwarrantedly, now first borns must protect their position and priority in the family. This motivation by the first born that begins in childhood, or rather when the knowledge of an addition to the family is acquired, results in a drive to achieve success. For this study (Paulhus et al., 1999), a within family data set was used with four families, family