fandomhigh | Child Development- 1st Period- Class #4

"Morning, everyone," Lily greeted the students after the bell. "I'm sure everyone'll be glad to know that this week there are no crying babies, though I know you all loved and adored them. This week we're going to get a little more into the psychology of things by talking about birth order.

"Alfred Adler was the first person to really put forward the theory that your chronological place among your siblings would have a strong effect on your personality," she went on, passing out this week's handouts. "Which it probably can. I mean, if you're the firstborn and are like, seven years old before you get that little brother or sister you spent years asking Santa for, you're going to have some really different experiences than that sibling who's got an older brother or sister to deal with, especially if you suddenly figure out you really would have rathered Santa gave you a bike instead.

"It's also not an exact science. Like I've been saying about development, everyone's going to be unique. And sometimes there are extenuating circumstances. Now we have blended families. People have stepbrothers and stepsisters, half-siblings... Sometimes they might live with their dad while their siblings live with their mom. And then you have a long time between siblings sometimes. Some people will say that if you have one kid, and then your second ten years or more later, you might as well just lump them in with only children. It's all a fun socio-familial...thing." She paused. "Which is a word I think I just made up, don't write that down."

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She'd add "cute" to the description, but yeah, that was totally who he was now. "Not at all!"

He raised an eyebrow, "I'm John, by the way. A name might halt any weird verbal associations."

"Claudia," she replied with an easy smile. "It's nice to meet someone with a normal name, John."

"Well, I'm happy to say I'm the only standard John student in Fandom at the moment," he replied. And seriously, this was different from when he arrived. "Though, as soon as I say something like that, watch us get an influx at summer."

"Did there used to be non-standard Johns?" Claudia asked.

"Well, there's still Johnny," he said, and wow, he was obviously a fan. "And before there were about six guys with some version of John as their name."

"Did you have to wear nametags?" Claudia asked.

"Sort of. We had a discussion once about renaming each other. I'm Fred." Oh memories.

It took Claudia a second. "Oh! All of the Johns got second names!"

"Exactly," John laughed. "It was easier to know who we were talking to."

"Makes sense, at least until you became the only John," Claudia agreed. "...what'd you do to the rest of them?"

His eyes shifted side to side. "Let's just say there's a reason no one goes up to the sixth floor of the dorms."

Claudia's eyes went huge. "I'll remember that."

Child Development- 1st Period- Class #4

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