In your opinion why is the first born considered an alpha birth order?
What family and environment influences cause the first born child to develop alpha characteristics?
Its a seniority thing. The first born has had more time to understand the rules of the pack and ends up helping to train those who come later. Becoming a trainer or surrogate parent makes naturally for a leadership position.
Several things come to mind. The firstborn gets more individual attention from parents. Parents tend to really get in tune with the firstborn, everything they do, say, every gurgle. That attention creates a certain self-assurance.
The next child comes along and the firstborn now has to "compete" to keep that attention they have grown accustomed to--sometimes by bullying the second child so that child 1 gets his/her way.
Now add a third child and the parents start to depend on the firstborn to help out depending on the child's age. they can get diapers, alert the mom to the baby crying and so on--thus giving child one a feeling of responsibility.
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