e difficult to predict and a challenge to understand. ¡§This results from the middle children feeling they were born too late to get the privileges and special treatment the first born seemed to inherit by right (¡K) and too soon to strike the bonanza that last borns enjoy¡ (Leman, 1998, p.150). But who can really blame them for being so conflicted? After all, what a task it must be to maintain order and harmony between older and younger siblings, while simultaneously keeping the peace with mom and dad. It is in fact this constant necessity for equilibrium that causes them to avoid conflict later in life.
             Last (but seldom least, as Leman so eloquently puts it) we have the youngest child, the natural born star. Loving the limelight, the baby of the family often tends to be ¡§manipulative, charming, blames others, attention seeker, tenacious, people person, natural salesperson, precocious, engaging, affectionate, and loves surprises¡ (Leman, 1998, p. 15). It is perhaps this natural carefree vivaciousness that causes those f
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