About this title: Dr. Kevin Leman's ever-popular book on birth order is getting a new look and updated writing. With insight and wit, Dr. Leman offers readers a fascinating and often funny look at how birth order affects personality, marriage and relationships, parenting style, career, and children. Birth order powerfully influences the way people interact with others, whether they're at home or on the job. This is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about how they react to their world. Dr. Leman even shows readers how to overcome ingrained tendencies they never thought they'd be rid of, all by ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780800714086ISBN:0800714083
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780800714086ISBN:0800714083
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
"The fun thing was that I read it on the plane as I went to spend some time with my parents and all my siblings in North Dakota so I was disappointed when I didn't find many of Leman's assertions to correlate with them nor my children. Leman has so many exceptions to his basic premises that he just explains them away. I am the youngest in my family and identified much better with his assessment of oldest and middle children and hardly at all with that of youngest. I don't think that any of the exceptions applied to me, either. He rambled and started the book out with his exceptions, too, as if he knew we were going to disagree with what he said. But go ahead, read it. There is probably more to it than I think :) The author is the youngest in his family so it is pretty fun, just like me!"
"I started to give this book three stars and then thought, "Well, it's a non-fiction book that I actually read. That probably merits four stars in and of itself." While I read quite a bit, I don't read non-fiction. If a book isn't going to transport me somewhere else, I'm generally not excited about reading it. Life is real enough for me without reading about it, too.
What I enjoyed about this book was that it helped me understand myself better, which I hope will ultimately make me a better person and a better mom. A friend (who is a middle child) gave me the book to help me understand my middle daughter better, so when I picked the book up, it was with the intention of learning more about Bekah. Instead, I flipped it open to a chapter on perfectionism, which is decidedly more a Shannon issue than a Bekah issue. I gained great insight in myself through reading that chapter and went back to the front and pretty much skimmed or read the entire book.
I don't read a lot of parenting books. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's my general dislike for non-fiction, but I also think I mostly know what to do as a parent, it's execution where I fail. When I stop to think about what I think my daughters need, I am generally able to figure it out. So I don't need to read a book to tell me what to do. (I just need to do what I know I should.) But I did like reading a book that helped me understand who they are better. I liked the tips for parenting first born, middle child and last born children, but I think I'll ultimately gain more from just understanding my daughters better.
I think this book can help you understand yourself, your husband and your children better. And it's a pretty easy read. So when you're in the mood for non-fiction, give this one a try."
"A fun read if you take it for a grain of salt. First borns (me) are often perfectionists which can make them aggressive and/or drive them to please everyone. Middle kids go the opposite way. Tend to move away from home, etc. Youngests are the clowns. Bad with money.
So certainly there are traits that are going to apply to all of us in some way. But if they don't apply, the author supplies a long list of exceptions-- like how many boys or girls are in a family and what the spacing is and the personality of the parents.
Fun to read-- but put it on the shelf slightly higher than palm reading and horoscopes."
"Three older and three younger. I am the middle child; neglected, unseen. Juuuuuust Kiddinnnnng! I hate to give him two stars; the research was all there, it was well thought out and reasonable. It must be the title. Birth order certainly makes a difference in our early experiences but a bit of a stretch to say it's why we are the way we are."
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