The Secret Power of Middle Children: How Middleborns Can Harness Their Unexpected and Remarkableabilities - Hardcover

This myth-busting book shows how "forgotten" middle children can-and do-rule the world.

In this counterintuitive book, psychologist Catherine Salmon and journalist Katrin Schumann combine science, history, and real-life stories to reveal for the first time that our perception of middle children is dead wrong.

Using unpublished and little-known research from evolutionary psychology, sociology, and communications, The Secret Power of Middle Children illustrates how adaptive strategies middleborns develop during childhood translate into stronger friendships, lasting marriages, successful careers, and effective parenting.

Over seventy million adult Americans are middle children, and forty percent of young American families have middle children. With constructive advice on how to maximize the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of being a middle child, Salmon and Schumann help middle children at any age (and their parents) use birth order as a strategy for success.

Catherine Salmon, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Redlands in California. Her award-winning research has been featured in Time, The Washington Post, The National Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer and in documentaries for the Science Channel and Oxygen.

Katrin Schumann is an author, freelance editor and teacher. Co-author of Mothers Need Time-Outs, Too, she appeared on NBC's "Today" as well as in Women's Day and The Daily Telegraph.

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