Sibling Rivalry
If you have siblings you know what it is, those fierce fights for supremacy in all shared interests. Brotherhood is like a primordial food chain–you want to be on top. Basketball, soccer, wrestling, best-paying summer jobs, prettiest girl friend–you name it, if there’s a shared interest there’s usually a competition. Of course it doesn’t HAVE to be like that, and in all likelyhood such a paradigm isn’t very healthy. I think in many respects I’ve grown out of such competition–I’m too good for it…
Of course, I can’t say that a satisfied smile failed to cross my face when I heard that what I had guessed at all along has actually been established as objective scientific truth, that is, completely irrefutable gospel:
Firstborn children are the cleverest.
The eldest children in families tend to develop higher I.Q.’s than their siblings, researchers are reporting today, in a large study that could settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order
Now, you ought to know, I do love my brothers. I just have to admit it’s a little hard not to be a little smug right now; though I’m sure I’ll quickly regain my subdued modesty, after all, I know better.
PS. I can still dunk over all y’all–watch out!



Jun 24th 2007
It’s good to have this substantiated.
Jun 25th 2007
As my wife says, with the first one, you spend all your time and energy making sure s/he is perfect. By the time you get to number three, it’s like, “whatever.”
Cheers.
Jun 27th 2007
Tim, your just jealous that im so much handsomer and better at EVERYTHING than you!!!!