# Happy (Belated) Middle Child Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149 "2013-08-13T19:44:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/1 "2013-08-13T19:44:38Z")
There’s a whole holiday for people like me (3 of 5); [Middle Child Day (8/12)!](http://www.examiner.com/article/national-middle-child-s-day-celebrating-special-children-stuck-the-middle) I’d never heard of this, but I wanted to wish all the other middle children a Happy Middle Child’s Day! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/2 "2013-08-13T19:53:03Z")
As a Middle Child, I wish you a happy yesterday right back! (Must mark next year’s calendar.) ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/3 "2013-08-13T23:29:43Z")
Isn’t that just typical? A day for the middle child and we get our best wishes a day or so late. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/4 "2013-08-14T05:00:40Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > Isn’t that just typical? A day for the middle child and we get our best wishes a day or so late. _sigh_ Totally. 🙂 I consider myself a double middle - my parents had two sisters older than I am, and two sisters younger. To increase my middle child isolation, both my older sisters were born less than a year apart, and in the same month, and both my younger sisters were born less than a year apart, and in the same month. Happy Middle Child Day, all the rest of you! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/5 "2013-08-14T12:07:42Z")
They always forget about us. You get used to it after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Fluke54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@Fluke54](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluke54)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/6 "2013-08-14T12:15:12Z")
I didn’t even know we had a holiday. Yay for middle kids! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/7 "2013-08-14T12:32:48Z")
Typical middle child luck, I come in to make a joke, and am beaten to the punch. Twice. On a semi-related note: my middle child, Spike, made my day yesterday. I was on the way out to the parking lot at the Y, after swimming laps at lunch, when I heard a loud “DAD!!!” in the lobby. He ran up and gave me a big hug, before returning to his day-camp group. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-belated-middle-child-day/666149/8 "2013-08-14T12:38:56Z")
Shouldn’t Middle Child Day be July 2nd?