Katlego Sekhu
Family birth orders can significantly shape our personalities. Firstborns, middleborns, and lastborns often exhibit common traits across families.
It’s often observed that lastborns, growing up in families with multiple children, learn social cues and people skills early in life.
The “babies of the family” tend to be the most free-spirited due to their parents’ more relaxed approach to parenting the second (or third, or fourth, or fifth) time around.
Kgomotso Meso noted that by the time her baby sister was born, her mother had softened. She revealed that her baby sister once asked her mom a rather shocking question, “When did you pop the cherry?” None of her siblings would dare ask their mom such a thing. To their surprise, their mom did nothing about it.
Skhumba also revealed that the lastborn in his family is spoiled to the core.
“My mom would be strict with me and my other siblings. One day, I forgot to make my bed, and my mom took the blankets and brought them to my school. But our lastborn can go over two days without making the bed,” Skhumba recalled.
Listen to the podcast to hear the Drive 959 listeners answer the question: “In your family (either the family you’re raising or the family you come from), have you noticed the things that the lastborns tend to get away with?”
