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    Science Confirms the Obvious: Parents are More Strict with Older Kids

    By Posted on 4.23.2008 4 Comments

    The latest breakthrough in the burgeoning field of birth-order research reveals that parents discipline older kids much more severely than the younger ones. My own thoroughly unscientific poll also finds that this experience is common: Four out of five friends felt that hell yeah, younger siblings got away with murder. Well, not murder per se, but other transgressions such as sneaking home at 5 AM, shoplifting car stereos from Caldor, and smearing Vaseline on the family toilet seat.

    10.9.2008 at 02:01am - Comment by watermia

    Parents may be more strict with the older kids, but the younger kids get pushed around a lot by their older siblings, so it's not like they get a free pass. At least in my family it was very hierarchical by age, with the youngest squarely at the bottom of the totem pole.

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