Fourth Child Syndrome

I'm a fourth child.  I was browsing the internet the other day about Birth Orders and being a third or fourth child, and here is what I found:

FOURTH CHILD SYNDROME:  Anything that a parent would find cute, humorous or indifferent that a parent would have had a fit over with the first born.

This is a very, very good thing for me.  In many ways. I can get away with lots of things that my former brothers could never have done.  For instance, they were never allowed on the furniture (except of course the bed.  Mom & Dad always want their kids to sleep in the bed with them, but never on any other furniture.)  I knew this, of course, but I decided to test out the theory.  Here's what happened.


One day, Mom was looking for me and she couldn't find me.  That's cuz I had curled up on the living room couch (a NO-NO for Caesar, Hercules or Brandywine).  It was so quiet and peaceful there, and I didn't think they would really mind if I snuck a few zzz's on the couch?

 

 

 

Sure enough, Mom found me on the couch and did she yell at me? 

I was afraid she might, but no, she just laughed.  (Something she would have had a fit over with Caesar, she now finds humerous with me.  Fourth Child Syndrome at work!) 

So I just stayed there and she let me.  But after awhile, I was afraid they might have forgotten me, so I had to check it out.

 And I peaked over the back of
the couch to make sure they
were still in the other room.
Talk about humerous!  She and Dad both laughed at me?

I don't know why it was so funny, but I guess it was.



Anyway, I'm going to keep taking advantage of FCS whenever I can!  For now, I'm going to have a great nap.     

I like being the Fourth Child.  Hope you have a great week!

Love, G