How many children are in your family of origin?

I am the oldest of three.

I am the middle child in a family of three. My older sibling is four years my senior and my younger sibling is one year my junior.

Eldest of four.

They say “Once a big sister, always a big sister,” and I think it’s true.

I once worked in a small office where three other women and I seemed to have a little trouble working cooperatively. Turned out, when we finally compared notes, that all four of us were big sisters and much more used to bossing than being bossed. To make matters worse, our hierarchical boss was all too easily pushed around. Yep: he was a little brother.

I am used to being the baby through and through

There are three of us and I’m the oldest. My sister is 2 years younger than me, and my brother is 13 years younger.

I am just me.

I have one younger sister and that’s it. Just the two of us.

Piggy in the middle of three, all boys.

I’m the oldest of 3. My sister is 3 years younger. My brother is 11 years younger.

Oldest of 2, by 18 months. Both boys

I’m the middle child. Sister two years older, brother two years younger. I kind of liked that. Oldest male but not the first born. That had some nice perks. And some responsibilities.

Eldest of three. My brother is two years, six months, and three minutes younger than me. My sister is almost six years younger than me.

Youngest of 3, all born within a 5-year span.

I’m the youngest of three.

I’m the oldest of two.

I am the youngest of five, all girls. There is a 22 year difference between me and the oldest.

Am I the only one that is a only child?

So far.

Three at any one time; four all together.

Oldest son, but 3rd of 4 children. The girls were born a year apart, then 4 years later the boys were born a year apart.

@Headhurts I’m sure more will pop up. Fluther has a lot of Americans, and in America only children are more rare than countries in western Europe I would bet. It is becoming more popular here though. Plus, a lot of jellies here are 40+ so their generation usually had siblings.

Oldest of 3 with 2 brothers 4 and 6 years younger. I’m a typical know-it-all, bossy big sister. It’s a part of myself I’ve worked hard to change.

I am the only biological product of my parent’s union. My mother had a child with her 1st husband who my father (her 2nd husband) adopted. So he and I grew up together. He is 9 years older than me, though, so we are both like only children.

Then my mother remarried when I was a teenager (3rd husband) to a guy who had an adopted son already. This guy was an adult…~12 years older than me. They had a child 17 years younger than me. Then they adopted a child years later who is 19 years younger than me in age.

Then we found out that my father had a child we never knew about, so I have a sister who is 8 years older than me.

This question is incredibly difficult to answer (logistically).

Shorter answer: I grew up with a brother 9 years older. We are both like only siblings.

Awkward answer: I’m not really sure how many siblings I have. It depends on how I count.

I am the oldest.
I am the youngest.
I am an only child.

Only child of my mother, oldest of my father’s four (probably more we’re not aware of.)

@cookieman I bet you got all the cookies in the cookie jar!

I am the third of four. My older brother is 6 yrs. older, my sister is 5 years older. My younger brother is 8 years younger.

Only child!

Second oldest of four, all relatively close in age. I feel bad for my parents having to put up with all of us
>.<

Only child. And my child is an only child too.

I’m the oldest of two.

Oldest of three.

Oldest of four. I have a sister who’s a year younger, and two little siblings from my dad’s second marriage. They’re tiny and adorable, even though my 2nd sister is taller than me now. She’s 12. JFC.

I am the oldest of four.

@ucme Maybe a profile of us based on birth order? Some people are into that and it’s often true.

Only children are profiled like the eldest in a family of more than one child, and often are the ‘leaders’ and over-achievers, etc…

@ucme, maybe just to get us thinking about it if we haven’t already.

As an editor I once had difficulty getting on a good footing with one content developer whom I was assigned to support. We just couldn’t connect. Finally we exchanged a little bit of personal information, and I learned that she was the youngest of seven in a matriarchally dominated family. That was the key: she expected me to tell her what to do, and she was just passively compliant. I actually had to coach her to resist and challenge my editorial suggestions where they didn’t work for her. Once we established some good give and take, we got along fine.

During my recent physical therapy, I noticed that I was acting in character as the oldest child…needing to be heroic, perfect, better than the other patients and getting an A in flexion, extension and pleasing my therapists. Then I would go back to bed and moan for ice and pain meds.

I think about birth order a lot.

Hmm, i’m a libran & a “middle” child, guess that makes me a well balanced pig then.
Just call me Babe.

@ucme the reason for this question is simply that I am feeling really lost since my oldest brother died. And I wondered the sizes of other Jellies families since mine is so big. That’s all. No big mystery.

I’m the eldest but I’m certainy not a leader-type or an overachiever. I was bossy as a child but not so much now. Too laid-back for that.