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    The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
    The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
    The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
    Audiobook9 hours

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

    Written by Dr. Kevin Leman

    Narrated by Wayne Shepherd

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Firstborn? Only child? Middle child? Baby of the family? Find out what it means to you, your relationships, and your career. Do you realize that of the first 23 astronauts in space, 21 were firstborns and the other two were the only child in their family? Are you aware that many successful entrepreneurs are middle children? Is it any surprise that most comedians are the youngest child in their family?

    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. And Dr. Kevin Leman's The Birth Order Book will help you understand yourself, get along better with others, overcome ingrained tendencies you never thought you could get rid of, and be more successful in the workplace.

    This revised and updated audio edition of Dr. Leman's classic book includes more than 30 years of experience and research, current examples, and fascinating stories to show how birth order impacts your life. Thousands of people have unlocked the secrets of birth order already. Shouldn't you be one of them?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2009
    ISBN9781608145874
    The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are
    Author

    Dr. Kevin Leman

    Dr. Kevin Leman is an internationally known psychologist, radio and television personality, and speaker. Cohost of the extremely popular Have a New Kid by Friday podcast, he has made house calls through hundreds of radio and television programs, such as FOX & Friends, The View, FOX's The Morning Show, Today, Morning in America, The 700 Club, CBS's The Early Show, 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 60 books, including The Birth Order Book and Have a New Kid by Friday. He is the founder of Leman Academy of Excellence, an award-winning group of classical charter schools located throughout Arizona and Colorado. Dr. Leman and his wife, Sande, live in Tucson, Arizona. They have five children and four grandchildren.

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    • 5/5
      I have three children myself. I'm the only one of my family. listening to this book have me gear insights of my children and help me to know how to better prepare them for success in life.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Reminded me a bit of Brian's success as an author on Family Guy.

      Need I say more ?


      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      So spot on! As I read each chapter, I just kept thinking "OMG, I am such a typical first born daughter!" & "Wow, these descriptions of the middle child & the last born describe my brothers exactly."

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    • 5/5
      Really good!!! And as the oldest of 5 it really helped me understand my parents my siblings and even myself. Thank you Dr.Leman!!!!
    • 4/5
      This book taught me a lot about myself and how my birth order has impacted who I am. The last few chapters weren't relevant because I don't have kids.
    • 5/5
      I found the Birth Order Book to be a fun, easy read. Kevin Lehman makes understanding siblings easy.
    • 2/5
      My feelings about this book swing wildly as I read the different chapters and find some really good stuff in between all the glib generalisations.Mostly I have to say I want to tell Kevin that people are really not that simple. You can't categorise me as a "middle child" or anyone else for that matter.If you have an unconvential family you will be particularly disappointed as he focuses on the typical 2 or 3 children. As one of 6 I really stuggled to apply much of what he said to my own childhood. I think some generalisations about first children may hold as whatever comes after they do hold a particular place in the family. Even having said that as I'm married to a first born who doesn't fit the mould at all, it looks like he failed again there.It's kind of insulting to boil us down to a set of characteristics determined by our position in the family, actually pretty preposterous for him to apply his middle class 2-3 children to all of us and expect us to fit his cookie cutter world.
    • 3/5
      THE BIRTH ODER BOOK would have been much better if the first three chapters were taken away. There was a lot of self promotion for the book in these first four chapters, and I became a bit frustrated with the author telling us how great this book was and how important it was that we read it. While he did make some pretty interesting statements in the book, and parts of the book really were great, the author’s sales tactics were applied in the incorrect setting. The people that need to be told to read the book are not the ones, like me, who are already reading it. The concept of birth order is certainly interesting, and the author gave some easy to understand examples and “tests” to help get his point across, but you can probably just skim the first few chapters and not miss very much…..but what do I know, I am just a first born.
    • 3/5
      My ladies' Book Club selected this as a change of pace to start 2021 and we had a good time with it. The vast majority of the group were firstborns with a few middleborns and one baby in the mix. Mostly the group felt that the analysis stated was spot on with only a few disagreements. I, personally, didn't feel that I fit my birth order category, but everyone else said that it was definitely me. The discussion was lively and a great deal of fun and laughter ensued.The style of writing for such a "serious" topic was light and friendly making us all feel as if Dr. Leman was speaking directly to us. Including his own family made3 it more personal however, he did seem to be trying to sell a bunch of other books at the same time. It was a good book for a book club to help getting to know each other better.
    • 5/5
      This gave Me a fresh new perspective on what happens with siblings.