“The eldest is the apple of the eye!
The youngest is a cutie pie!
The ones in the middle are for fun!
So many choices but the parent can’t select one!”
Anyone who has more than one kid knows the Balancing act it takes to be a ‘fair’ parent!
Imagine Earth having to do the same now!
Yes! It is official! The Earth has two moons now!
read on!
The first child and the last child syndrome is well known! Even the middle child syndrome!
The first child is usually the one with all the focus and hopes and inspirations of the parent! Like someone told in a stand up; the first is the prototype!
You give the most care and always have some amount of concern for the first child! The issue with the first child would always be that till the day the second was born, he or she was the center of attention and focus of his or her parents! Now suddenly the focus gets divided!
To suddenly share everything including parents love is a big challenge! Of course the modern day parents usually train the child and most of the time the transition is smooth!
Every child would many times think the parent loves the other kids more than him or her! But Parental love is not a limited quantity or a private company!
The second child is usually less stressed since by this time the parents know stuff! They would accept reality and would not pressure much into the this time around!
Till the parents have a third kid and the second kid becomes the middle child! Then the same complex patterns start! The middle child syndrome!
The books on children psychology states how the oldest children, for example, tend to be more reliable and conscientious. They might have Type A personalities and lean towards perfectionist tendencies—probably because first-time parents act extremely “by the book” and devote undivided attention to them as mentioned above!
While parents are more relaxed and experienced with youngest siblings, so last-borns tend to have different personality traits such as being more likely to seek out fun experiences! However, since younger siblings may try to live up to older siblings, they may also be more self-centered and attention-seeking! They may take things more lightly and do not get stressed! This is of course till the first child is not an overachiever! Then the achievements of the first has a risk of hanging over his or her head!
The middle child however is probably not praised like their older sibling or coddled like their younger one!
In our Itihasas also there was an incident when the Pandavas were in Hiding and in the house of the people they were staying there was a middle child who was ‘selected’ to be sent to the big ‘asura’ as a sacrifice! The poor middle child would tell how the eldest is the favourite of the father while the youngest was dear to mother! While he was the favourite of none!
Bheem, a middle child himself would intervene and set things right!
Practically though, no parent can and must be tortured to select his or her ‘favourite’ child since that cannot happen!
Then again all these problems are solved when the child realise that his or her parents are also Humans!
After the third child though, if the parents have more children, there is usually no time or place for any other ‘syndrome!’
For all the zillion discussion and a million books on the family child dynamics though, the fact of the matter remains; every family is different!
So the discussion about children and the earth is being done now since the Earth just had a second child! I meant the moon!
Now before you start raising your eyebrows lemme tell you some theories on how the moon was formed and how the prevalent theory is that it is ‘created’ from the earth!
There used to be a number of theories about how the Moon was made and it was one of the aims of the Apollo program to figure out how we got to have our Moon.
Prior to the Apollo mission research there were three theories about how the Moon formed.
Capture theory suggests that the Moon was a wandering body (like an asteroid) that formed elsewhere in the solar system and was captured by Earth’s gravity as it passed nearby- hold on to this thought!
The accretion hypothesis proposes that the Moon was created along with Earth at its formation.
The fission theory suggests Earth had been spinning so fast that some material broke away and began to orbit the planet.
The giant-impact theory is most widely accepted today. This proposes that the Moon formed during a collision between the Earth and another small planet, about the size of the planet Mars. The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon! This is because the Apollo missions brought back over a third of a tonne of rock and soil from the Moon. This provided some clues on how the Moon may have formed. The Apollo rocks showed that the Earth and the Moon have some remarkable chemical and isotopic similarities, suggesting that they have a linked history!
So our Moon is the proverbial first child of the Earth! And it will stay with us for over a billion more years till the ‘parental’ Earth pull stays! Once that reduces, the Moon may drift away!
Now the Moon will have First child syndrome since for some time now, Earth has recently adopted another ‘child!’
It has been reported that the Earth has a new, temporary companion in space: a “mini moon” named Asteroid 2024 PT5. This small space rock, about the size of a bus, was caught by Earth’s gravity on Sunday.
But we cannot see it in the night sky unless we have advanced telescopes.
It takes about 27 days for the moon to make one complete orbit around the earth. The asteroid that will also orbit with the moon and travel with us for nearly 57 days, completing almost one full orbit of Earth!
Sadly though the ‘second’ kid or the moon is only here with
After that, the rock will break free from our gravitational grasp on November 25, returning to its path around the Sun.
This might sound extraordinary to get a second moon, but according to NASA it’s quite common for asteroids and other space rock to enter the gravitational pull of the earth!
Mini-moons have occurred before. The 2022 NX1 asteroid joined Earth’s orbit in 1981 and 2022!
So for another month or so our Moon may get the ‘first child’ syndrome! So if there are more number of high tides, then you can know the cause! Its is just plain old Sibling rivalry! Talking about sibling reminds me of the singing siblings which had the birthday celebrity Shantanu Mukherjee aka Shaan and his sister Sagarika! Their song Aisa Hota Hai from the album was an big hit among siblings! Of course Shaan was meant to shine which he did and how!
Now do not try to see the Moon number two! Just know it is there and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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