All parents have had this thought at the birth of the second child. When the new baby arrives, it seems to us that the older brother had suddenly grown up. The little one becomes the baby of the house and in some cases the label is for life, although the baby has already exceeded 50.
The classic "Now that the baby is born, the elder seems much bigger" It is what scientists call the "illusion" of the little one in the house, and even if you don't believe it, a scientific study has also been done. We tell you why it happens.
Contrary to what we usually believe, our perception is not that with the little one we now have a parameter to compare and we see the oldest much larger in relation to the tiny baby. No, is not that.
Actually, the parents they see smaller is the first child they have. When the second arrives, that spell is broken and they see the greatest as it really is. That is to say, we always have a son whom we see as the little one in the house, even if he is the oldest.
The "illusion" of the little one in the house: the study
By asking 747 mothers, 70 percent said they noticed a sudden change in the stature of their eldest son at birth the second
The second part of the study was also very curious, in which mothers were asked to mark the height of their two children on the wall. When compared to the actual measurements of their children, they realized that mothers tended to underestimate the height of their babies and they were right for their older children.
Parents experienced a change in perception when they have a second child.
I confess that this happens to me with clothes. With the larger ones I usually get the sizes right, while the small floor buy everything small. Or by passing her the inherited clothes of her older sisters, there are things that have remained small before using her because I thought they still weren't. That is, in my case the illusion of the young son is manual.
According to the researchers of the Swinburne University of Technology, in Victoria (Australia), what happens is that parents experienced a change of perception when they have a second child.
They believe that what older brothers complain about is fulfilled, "care and attention is preferably directed to the youngest child even when he has grown up and is far from being a baby".
Has it happened to you that when the baby arrived, the eldest suddenly seemed much bigger? Do you also have the illusion of the little son to see him smaller than he really is?
