Customer Reviews

My Middle Child, There's No One Like You (Birth Order Books)

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... is challenging. Making sure they know that they are not overlooked is difficult. This book does a great job for my middlechild. She knows she's loved because I got her a book. :)

WE LOVE Dr. Kevin Leman's books!

Being a middle child myself, it is something I share uniquely with my middle daughter. It is our special bond. I gave her this book two years ago at Christmas. We sat on the couch and I read it to her, barely seeing the last few pages over my tears. You see, she is now approaching her 25th birthday. She has lived all over the world, doing foreign exchanges in elementary and high school. When she was 18 she spent 6 months with Canada World Youth, living in Thailand for 3 months. Her undergrad degree was over 1100 miles away. Now she is working on her Masters degree 2700 miles away. There have been Christmases (birthdays, Easter, Thanksgiving, special occasions)when she is not there. While reading that book to my adult daughter, we laughed because we both understood EXACTLY the feelings the bear felt. I cried because I knew this moment was rare and I didn't want it to end. I also understand now that your birth order is always with you, guiding you, making you who you are.

This is a cute book that puts the focus on the middle child. It reminds the middle child that they are special. I got it for a 9 year old who is a slow reader. She could read the book well.

I have always enjoyed the books by Dr. Kevin Leman about birth order. I purchased this for a "fun" Christmas book (2009). Good Idea for children to see a quick synopsis of their family consellation

I bought this book and the other two for the youngest and oldest children. The other two like it well enough, but for the middle child...so special! She loves reading it night after night and even sleeps with it. I would highly recommend this for the middle child.

The book struck me as silly and it bored my 4-year old, who generally finds something of interest even in news articles! It is also overtly Christian, so if you don't want to send a message about Christian God, it's not appropriate. I returned it.

I am a psychologist and bought all 3 books in the series when my son's wife gave birth to his 3rd child. I didn't preview it before I read these books to the oldest as well as to newly deemed "middle child." I was disapointed and a bit apologetic to their parents when we all read it together. These children knew the message(s) in the book were related to them. I felt that since they are so young, they were getting a message about how they were going to (or should) turn out. Also, there were references to Christmas and I felt this didn't leave room for people who celebrate other holidays than those. I thought the concept of the book was good. From the title, I was mainly interested in the message that the mother loves all three of her children, recognises differences, but loves them just the same. I wish the author would have just adhered to that theme and left the predictions about their personalities and behavior out of it. [...]