The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are

by Kevin Leman

Overview

OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD

Firstborn? Only child? Middle child? Baby of the family? Find out what it means to you, your relationships, and your career.

Ever wonder why you just can't get along with certain people? Why you pick the friends you do? Why you chose the career path you're on? It's all about birth order.

Birth order powerfully influences who you are, whom you marry, the job you choose, and the kind of parent you are. Dr. Kevin Leman's classic guide, The Birth Order Book, will help you

● better understand yourself
● get along with others
● overcome ingrained tendencies
● be more successful in the workplace
● be a more effective parent
● and more

Thousands of people have unlocked the secrets of birth order already. Shouldn't you be one of them?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800723842
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/03/2015
Edition description:	Repackaged Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker who has taught and entertained audiences worldwide with his wit and commonsense psychology. He has made house calls through hundreds of radio and television programs, such as Fox & Friends, The View, FOX's The Morning Show, Today, Bill Bennett's Morning in America, The 700 Club, CBS's The Early Show, In the Market with Janet Parshall, CNN, and Focus on the Family, and has served as a contributing family psychologist to Good Morning America. A bestselling and award—winning author, Dr. Leman has written more than fifty books, including The Birth Order Book, Making Children Mind without Losing Yours, and Have a New Kid by Friday. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.

Table of Contents

	Preface: Maybe Abel Did Have It Coming	9
1	Birth Order--Does It Really Make Any Sense?	13
2	But, Doc, I Don't Fit Your Birth Order Mold! Birth Order Variables--Part 1	32
3	What's Parenting Got to Do with It? Birth Order Variables--Part 2	52
4	First Come, First Served: A Closer Look at First Borns	75
5	Just How Serious a Problem Is Perfectionism?	97
6	Moving from Perfectionism toward Excellence: There Is a Way Out of the Perfectionist Swamp	114
7	Lonely Only, Super First Born: A Closer Look at Only Children	130
8	I Never Did Get No Respect: A Closer Look at the Middle Child	149
9	Born Last but Seldom Least: A Closer Look at the Baby of the Family	167
10	How to Let Your Birth Order Work for You in Business	190
11	Birth Order Marriages Aren't Made in Heaven	207
12	I Only Count When ... Taking a Look at Your Life-Style	231
13	Why Reality Discipline Works with Any Birth Order	250
14	Flaunt Your Imperfections: Parenting First Borns and Only Children	268
15	Two May Be Company ... or a Crowd: Parenting the Two-Child Family	289
16	Taking Off the Squeeze: Parenting the Middle Child	307
17	Helping the Family "Cub" Grow Up: Parenting the Last Born	321
	Epilogue: There Is Still Only One Thing You Can't Do Without	338
	Appendices
A	U.S. Presidents and Their Birth Order	349
B	A Review of Born to Rebel by Frank Sulloway	352
	Notes	357