Middle-born Children Are Enough Cause To Celebrate National Middle Children Day

 'Middle' is the place, sometimes, where you get the best stuff, even though middle children haven't really got much attention. In the 1980s, Elizabeth Walker started a new idea of having a holiday, but August 12 got converted into the National Middle Children's Day, according to king5.

One study from Stanford University showed that middle children are considered the "most envious, least bold and least talkative" while another study says they tend to be "artistic and creative," according to wfsb.

Some researchers in 2010 probed 200 birth-order studies, and discovered that "second-born children are largely ignored in the research literature."

Still, why is it great to be a middle child? For the following reasons.

"They drive truth, justice, and even more justice," according to upworthy.

Katrin Schumann, co-author of "The Secret Power of Middle Children," says in Psychology Today that middle children "are focused on fairness; they perceive injustice in their family and are attuned to the needs of others as they grow up."

Middle children are loyal and support the underdog. That seems to be why Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Nelson Mandela were the middle children.

They are more "sex-positive". Even as firstborn children have the most "sexual partners" middles are less judgemental about trying new things in the bedroom. Dan Savage, then, the third of four children, has been called Mr Positivity.

They are great deal-makers. Why else are 52% of US Presidents middle children? John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln, for instance.

As they need to "navigate" complicated family and sibling drelationships, they make big negotiators, said Dr. Frank Sulloway, author of "Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives."

 "Middle-borns are the most willing to wheel and deal. They are agreeable, diplomatic, and compromising."

Though middle-borns give less attention to the middle child than the first-born, the seconders are able to find out what exactly are their special talents and skills, and work on them. Take Jennifer Lopez, for instance. As Catherine Salmon, Schumann's co-author, said: "In a certain way, they're free to find out what they really are good at on their own time and in their own way, and then excel at that."