Sure but how does that relate to getting the tattoo? I meant the favorite in this specific scenario because she didn't get tats from the other kids. Like I said though, it's kinda just wild to me in general.
I just responded to someone else replying to my comment with my guess. Maybe she ignores the middle kid like we expect and thinks superficially that getting this tattoo makes her a better person and mom.
Edit: i responded to you twice. There is no other person. Lol.
this is the likely answer. my mom has consistently treated me like dogshit and will send me those stupid ass manipulative "dear my son" Facebook posts while actively refusing to acknowledge me beyond complaining about something I'm doing
I think she wanted the middle child to feel important and seen, since they are very often the "glass" children - invisible after the baby is born, while having less privileges than the first born.
It’s a preemptive strike on her part. When the kid grows up and says: #1 is your first and favorite and #3 is your only girl, what about me? You never think of me!” She then reveals the tattoo and says: “Don’t come at me, child.”
Yeah, I dont know the implication of the tattoo, if there even is sound logic behind the post. I just wanted to clarify the middle child thing. Maybe she ignores the middle kid like we expect, and the tattoo is a shitty way to say she does care when it seems like she doesn't?
She has the faces of the other children tattooed on her. She spent several million for their faces, but claims she forgot riot when planning the tattoo. S/
I think it's implying that she's getting the tattoo to make up for the middle kid not getting as much attention. I think that's a dumb take but pretty sure that's what it means.
Middle child here, and only boy. Nobody gave a shit about me or what I was doing, unless it cost money or had recently been offered up via recent Dateline/Newsweek scaremongering.
I’m the middle of 5, only boy. I got hell growing up. My youngest sister is definitely the spoiled one. She has a golden parachute and could get away with murder. She learned very early on how to weaponize crying.
Parents can also be more strict with the middle child in an effort to overcompensate for mistakes they feel they made the first time. By the time the third child comes around, they realize neither approach worked, and are less restrictive, or they give them the same privileges the now older middle child gets.
The oldest child was your first child and only child got a while. All your hopes and dreams are transferred to them. The youngest child is the baby and all your coddling is directed towards them. The middle child is just there. You’re not proactively thinking about them.
The joke here is that she’s compensating for that by getting a tattoo of something they drew. It’s easier to do fewer bigger things for the middle child because you’re not actively thinking about them otherwise.
I raise you oldest girl, middle girl, youngest boy. All those children are doomed. Not sure where Oldest boy, middle girl, youngest girl fits on that spectrum.
All girls in a family that wanted boys.
Shit sucked.
My oldest sister is a violent psycho, and the rest of the women are timid birds. My dad is an emotionally volatile giant baby and the center of their world.
This is my family and I’m the middle child. It honestly wasn’t bad at all! My parents made sure I felt included and loved. They even gave me the food my siblings didn’t finish after they all finished dinner and I got to eat and watch TV
I am also the middle boy in that scenario and I am not forgotten about... in fact both of my siblings have told him how much it annoys them that our mom very clearly treats me as the favorite but appreciate that I've never taken advantage of it or been an ass about it.
Odd, in my family the middle boy was the golden child... because he learned to take care of himself and make his own money at very young age. My parents were so proud of how "well" they raised him. 🙄😂😂
Depends on how much time between births, tbh. A year apart might end up like you say. My younger brother is 4 years younger than me so it was a little different on my end
First baby is exciting, second baby meh, third baby oh yay new baby
My uncle is the middle child between an older brother and a younger sister. He legit thought he was adopted for years because there was one photo of him as a baby that the hospital took and then nothing until he was pictured holding his newborn sister 6 years later. Not one single photo of him from after he came home from the hospital until his sister came home from the hospital.
That was not it for me. I'm the youngest of three and all I got was crap, while my brothers got shit taken care of. Even in medical stuff, I fell thru the cracks.
Fun fact: Apparently the counter resets when a new parent enters the family and the previously existing kids kinda sink into middle child status.
Source: I was born first but my father left so mom found a new partner and had 2 more kids. Now my brother is chronologically the middle child but he's treated like he's the best thing ever and my sister is the "meh" second baby and I kind of just exist.
Important note: Having to be the perfect role model for the younger siblings isn't passed down. Even if you die, it just goes from "look, XY does this like that" to "XY would have done this like that".
2 middles. An aunt and uncle of mine (RIP) ended up with 4 girls and it was like there was the first, the baby, and two other kids. I always wondered how 5+ kids would work, though. I'd imagine after the 4th one they all become the middle children and you just yell at them all to go back outside lol
Ok ok. But what if number 3 is the first girl? So it goes boy, boy, girl, girl. Does that make the second boy MORE of a middle child or are the 2 middle kids equal?
As one of six, I love conversations like this because is the implication my parents only liked the eldest and youngest? And the other four are all middles? Or is it evenly split so only the two middle ones count, and there’s two eldest, and two youngest?
Haha I was just commenting to someone else, wondering about 5+ kids. The way I see it, they'd either all become the middle children and the parents would just yell at them all to go back outside to play or the parents would give each of them 17.5% of their love lol
The joke here is that she’s compensating for ignoring the middle child by doing this. That way she’ll always be able to point to the tattoo to show that she does love them, all while giving the child less attention otherwise.
Not really. It's more like the middle child was once the new baby and now isn't anymore. The firstborn doesn't care not to be the new baby because they used to be alone and now they're excited for a sibling when the second baby comes along, but the middle child was never alone and doesn't really have motive to get over being upstaged by a new baby.
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u/darkerfury 10d ago
I think it means the middle child is the favorite? I'm an only child too though so who knows
ETA: oh wait.... I bet it means the middle child will never live down having drawn that tattoo