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  • Published: 28 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742746272
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Why First-Borns Rule the World and Last-Borns Want to Change it



There are many factors affecting a child’s personality and the adult they become, yet the least understood but most emphatic influence on personality is birth order.

There are many factors affecting a child’s personality and the adult they become, yet the least understood but most emphatic influence on personality is birth order.

Why is it that children in a family can share the same gene pool, a similar socio-economic environment and experience similar parenting styles yet have fundamentally different personalities, interests and even different careers as adults? Birth order! The implications for parents, teachers and adults involved with children are many.

This book also provides answers to all your questions about the personality and behaviour of your colleagues, life partner, friends and siblings. And perhaps explains some of your own ambitions and quirks. Addressing multiple births, special-needs children, genetic engineering, blended families, gender balance, single children and birth-order balance in the workplace, parenting expert and father of three Michael Grose challenges parents to raise each child differently according to his or her birth order.

  • Published: 28 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781742746272
  • Imprint: Random House Australia
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

About the author

Michael Grose

Michael Grose is one of Australia's leading parenting and educational writers and speakers. He is the author of nine books for parents, including the best-selling Why First Borns Rule the World. Currently he supports over 1500 schools in Australia and internationally to build strong partnerships with their parent communities.

Michael was recently elevated to the PSA Speaker Hall of Fame when he won the Educator Award for Excellence. He was the first person to conduct a parenting seminar for a nation's leaders when he ventured into Parliament House, Canberra, in 2004 and addressed politicians on both sides of the political fence about how to behave so your children will too!

For more information and practical ideas on parenting visit his website: www.parentingideas.com.au.

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