My name is Richard F Higgins Jr, I’m the second to the youngest out of eight children. Four girls and four boys. All the girls are older than us boys. I grew up wearing hand me downs also. As far as going to great lengths to be noticed, and still feeling unnoticed was really not an issue for me. What was an issue was the older siblings always got the front seat in the car or got to pick the better things growing up. I sometimes got away with something’s being the second to the youngest and named after my father, I was his favorite, but did feel like my youngest brother got away with everything, he being my mother’s favorite. I was the most observant child and learned from watching and avoiding the mistakes my siblings made. I got me out of alot of grounding and spankings. I also felt extremely lucky to having both older siblings and a younger sibling.
On the flip side, I am a father of eight children myself. Six boys and two girls. My oldest is a girl and my youngest girl is number six out of the eight. I have two grandsons and am sure I will have many more with having eight children.
Carol
July 29, 2015
It is three of us and yes I sm the middle child. It’s is not easy being a middle child. Every one thinks I’m the media of every situations they don’t want to deal with when making decisions. When it’s time to do a Family BBQ or get together they direct the occasion to me. Making decision about our mother their looking at me. When does it stop?