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Comment on The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:36:04 +0000

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Comment on The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:18:04 +0000

I totally agree! I’m really startled that this keeps happening time after time these days. I am so glad I am not jogging. The Owners need to know about things in future I need to keep an eye on what is going on moving forward.

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Comment on The Big Game: What Corporations Are Learning About the Human Brain by Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:16:03 +0000

This is ace! I’m really startled that this has gone on these days. I was happy in the fact I was not running. We need to know about the future. Lets see the evolution and going forth.

Comment on Only-Child Syndrome or Advantage? by bbermudez

bbermudez — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:51:14 +0000

As the only child of my parents, I’ve often thought about my identity as an “only”. As many have already said, I was kind of like the apple of my parents eye, captured all their attention, and whatnot. Most importantly, neither of my parents are doing all that great financially right now, so there’s no spoiling going on over here and also, I can only imagine if there were two of me. I primarily live with my mom so I can’t imagine if I had other siblings; we’d probably be below the poverty level and things would be much worse than what they are. That is the blessing of being an only child.

With that being said, in my experience, being an only child really is lonely. I’ve always attributed my deep shyness, introverted, and socially awkward personality directly with my only child status. My parents DID sign me up for extracurricular activities when I was younger (which is extremely crucial for the social development of onlys) but I was diagnosed with a hernia that grew the size of a tennis ball in my stomach at the age of 5 and spent a great deal of time in and out of hospitals when other kids were playing and hanging out with each other. I feel having a brother or sister would’ve filled that void of loneliness and lack of social interaction with people around my age.

To this day, at 17, I have issues socializing with my peers at school and I have to deal with the fact that my social life in elementary school had more buzz than now in high school.

Being an only child, I also realize that I will never be an aunt (biologically), have nieces or nephews, and my kids won’t have close or direct cousins from my side of the family.

Being an only child of two parents that conceived me later in life, I’ve already began to feel the burden of caring for them as their health deteriorates. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like I don’t want to take care of them, but having siblings to help would definitely take A LOT of weight and stress from my shoulders. I know I will have to take care of them, even if that impacts my plans and things I want to do, I will have to make their crucial medical decisions, and I know that I will eventually see them die, and bury them all by myself. Then I have no one.

I don’t at all blame my parents seeing as they miscarried 3x to finally have me, later in life at that, and I was pretty much their miracle child. They aren’t selfish at all and I wouldn’t trade my parents for any other.

However, being an only child f**ked me up. I refuse to bring a child into this world without the intention of eventually giving them siblings. I am unmoved by the notion that raising an only child is a walk in the park, filled with rainbows, and less stress. Being that I lived in the shoes of an only child, it was anything but for me.

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Comment on Only-Child Syndrome or Advantage? by Carli

Carli — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:18:19 +0000

I am an only child and have wished since I was a child that it would be different. A lot of people wrote that they felt lonely. While I didn’t have those same feelings (I always had a lot of friends to keep me company), I felt like I missed out on an experience. I never pictured having siblings as all rainbows and sunshine but I would see the dynamics of how siblings interacted and how it was different from interactions with friends. I wish I would have experienced that kind of relationship (whether good or bad). I also can say I strongly feel this made it harder for me when I moved out on my own and started living with people other than my parents (dorm room, apartment roommate, getting married). I could tell right away that I had a difficult time sharing space as this was something I never had to do before. My husband has brothers and sisters and while he is definitely closer with certain siblings then others, I do think he has more well-rounded interpersonal skills and definitely had an easier time with sharing space when we started living together.
For those who have commented about only having children for themselves, I think you are missing the bigger picture. If having only one child is what you think is best for yourself, your spouse AND your child, great. But there’s absolutely nothing wrong with believing having siblings is a good thing for your children and deciding to make that happen. When making decisions, I try as best I can to look at the family unit as a whole, not just what is best for me and my husband.