There are many amazing people who have lived in our world. Benjamin Franklin is one of many of them. Why is he so amazing? If you analyze his life one, of the things you'll likely find is that he is the youngest of 17 children. He isn't the only amazing person in the world who is the youngest. Millions of actors, politicians and other prominent people in our society are the youngest children in their families. So what is it that makes all these youngest children so amazing?
I myself am the youngest of eight children. Being the youngest in the family has many advantages. The most obvious advantage I have in being the youngest is the relationship I have with my parents. I can pretty much get whatever I want off of them because there's no one else left to spend their money on. However, this relationship does have a few down sides. For example, even right now, this blog I'm writing is an assignment for my English, class and my mom is being extremely officious because she has no one else to bug about doing his/her homework. Also speaking of no one else, THERE IS NO ONE ELSE!! Except for one brother I have left at home going to college, but he's never around, so its pretty much just me and my parents. I guess you could say the only true disadvantage to being the youngest is when everyone else leaves its just you and them(your parents).
But back in the days when most of my siblings were at home, boy was life great. I have six brothers and one sister who are all older and have had more experiences than me. Whenever I'm going into a new class at school, I have seven people to consult on which teachers are good and which are bad; and not only that, I can always rely and live off of the good impressions left on teachers by my older brothers and sister. My older siblings also supply me with a standard to reach in all I do. They never fail to build in me the want to do better than them, no matter how feudal the situation may appear. I thank all of my brothers for my love of sports. All my life in whatever sport I've been playing, I've had six coaches on hand to tell me how to improve. My siblings have taught me to do many things I never would have learned by myself. Many people feel sympathy towards the youngest of big families because of all the teasing and torment they have to go through from their older siblings. I totally disagree with this sympathy. I am so grateful to my older brothers and sister for teasing me etc. Without all these experiences they give me, who knows how badly I'd handle my life?
So as you can see, the youngest of families are almost always the amazing and brilliant people in society. They have to live up to all of their older siblings if not exceed them, and they have all the materials provided to do so.