“Let’s face it, pets bring liveliness and love to the household, and they are always around to play with you. They grow up with you, show you affection when you’re sad and celebrate with you when you’re happy. When you’re an only child, you can never have too many pets!”— Marion Schwaner, collegecandy.comTagged: only children, pes, Dogs, cats
“Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.”— Heber J. Grant, books.google.comTagged: only children, mothers, Parenting
“I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.”— Maynard James Keenan, books.google.comTagged: only children, mind reading, Thoughts
“As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.”— Willard Scott, amazon.comTagged: only children, Love, secure, confident
“You’re really comfortable by yourself. You don’t get people that say they hate being alone when you can happily have no human contact for a couple of days.”— Vicky Chandler, metro.co.ukTagged: only children, alone time, human contact
“Only children tend to be just as happy as children who grew up in a house full of siblings.”— Samantha Darby, romper.comTagged: only children, Siblings, Happiness
“Only children tend to have a lot of the same characteristics as first-born children. As a result of gaining undivided attention from parents, only children are often considered to be self-centered.”— Nicole Teague, apps.cignabehavioral.comTagged: only children, first-born, self-centered
“Once a girl who is an only child commits to you, she’s FULLY committed. She will be the most attentive, invested girlfriend you’ve ever had. Only children are often a little OCD and get hyper-excited/obsessed with things, and this will absolutely translate into how much they show that they care abou…”— Kendra Syrdal, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: only children, ocd, alone time, Dating
“As you get older, you’re kind of thankful for being an only child. You realize what you have, and what could have never been attained if other siblings were in the mix. College, shopping and even your first car were (somewhat) guaranteed to happen.”— Emory Ann, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: only children, College, Cars, Money
“People always seem to think that growing up as an only child was hard on us when we were kids. But it was kinda nice – our friends would all have to deal with siblings they hated and would fight with all the time, while we got our rooms to ourselves and nobody to wrestle with for the remote control.…”— Jay Miletsky, puckermob.comTagged: only children, Siblings, Best Friends
“If you’re lucky, you have one best friend, with no sisters, who you know will undoubtedly be your maid-of-honor and you will be hers. However, if not, will you always be second string to her sisters?”— Genevieve Choate, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: only children, Best Friends, Sisters
“Not even middle school P.E. locker rooms could squash my fear of changing in front of an audience. If you shared a room growing up or were raised in a large family, you might not be so self-conscious about casually undressing with others around. Other private things, like urinating, are meant to be…”— Laura Donovan, hellogiggles.comTagged: only children, self-conscious, private
“Hand-me-downs? They don’t exist, unless they come from your cousins — and it’s usually stuff you have been coveting since forever, so you totally want them. Hey, you are the only child, your stuff is always new and you like it that way because you don’t really know any other way.”— Jenessa Michele, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: only children, hand-me-downs, cousins
“Their parents probably love them more than yours do, because they only have one child to love.”— Lauren Passell, thedatereport.comTagged: only children, Parents, Love
“Only children aren’t more selfish, they are just more used to having what’s theirs be theirs, guaranteed.”— Lauren Passell, thedatereport.comTagged: only children, Selfish, boundaries
“We grew up with no siblings to take on our worries or secrets, so we often become deep thinkers, keeping our concerns to ourselves. This is not because we mean to be secretive, it’s because we are so used to solving our own issues and don’t want others to make a big deal out of it — no matter how bi…”— Cynthia Lawrence, ravishly.comTagged: only children, Secrets, private
“While we like to socialize and meet new people, it can be quite overwhelming when too many people are crowding our personal space all the time.”— Cynthia Lawrence, ravishly.comTagged: only children, social life, alone time
“I grew up believing that I could do it all by myself. I had to stand up for myself to the school bullies, unlike some of my friends, whose older siblings stood up for them. There was no ‘co’ anyone in my life in regard to my relationship with my parents. If I got into trouble for getting home late f…”— Chandrayee Chatterjee, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: only children, Independence, Alone
“Since you have all this time and energy, and nobody to share it with, you tend to look for the answers in the comforts of your own home. You spot a pen, and oh good lord a paper. And bam, you’ve found yourself a hobby.”— Alex Shwayze, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: only children, Energy, Time, Creativity