Oh, I bet the other 6 just love that. 
My two are more alike than different - and they are different in many ways -even with opposite genders. On the other hand, my spouse and I are VERY different from our siblings. Always have been.
I’m always amazed by families where everyone looks alike, like stair steps. In our family, both siblings and children, you might see a similar feature here and there but we don’t really look alike too much either.
I also have two who are opposites. When my son was in high school he brought home a Myers Briggs quiz – son came up INTP (which is how I score as well) – daughter came up ESFJ. So again, as opposite as they could possibly be.
And yet somehow they both ended up with the same undergraduate major as well as the same graduate degrees … go figure.
Re: Myers Briggs, don’t you think they change over time? Although I’m the same in some ways, I’m a very different person than I was at 16 or 30 then now. Not sure how I feel about MB testing on high school kids.
Regarding our “Golden Child,” this nickname came from our optometrist–when both parents and 6 of 7 kids needed vision correction, and one kid had 20/20 vision, the doc said to me, “You only get one Golden Child.” It became a family joke after that. (Our Golden Child is nearly 26 and has his problems like anyone else. The rest of them also have various achievements to be proud of–they are not envious of our Golden Child!)
Our kids share the need for glasses for distance vision and both love reading. In temperment both are quite different. D is much more social that S and very attuned to people’s feelings. S verges on clueless as to that but is very good at analyzing things and problems he is presented with. He’s excellent with numbers, science, and a fabulous entrepeneur.
I see aspects of H and myself in each of our children. They get along fairly well and get together as much as one can when living on opposite coasts of the US, but would likely never spend time together if they weren’t related.
When my wife and I did MB test in college, she was ISFJ, I was ENTP. I would say it was pretty accurate, although if I took it today I would probably be an I, and she might be an E. But we are opposites for sure.
I don’t know if they have taken the test or not, but I’m pretty sure my kids are all over the map.
@atomom. I had to catch my breath at “7” children. ???. Have no clue how your doing this… Lol.
Anyway… Have two. My daughter is left brain and son is right brain. Totally different kids. We never thought they would be close then… My son went to a conference in California on Augmented Reality and my daughter wanted to go with but after the conference they would do her thing and hike, stay in youth hostels and Arbnb and travel around San Francisco afterwards. They had a great time and got to enjoy each other’s things. They also talk more etc. 2 years ago I would of told you this would never happen.
@doschicos – I don’t really place that much stock in Myers Briggs – but the point is that it just verified the opposing personalities. It just happens to have a 4-sector scoring system where there are two alternate measures, and DD was opposite of DS for each. But it didn’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know - it was just a way of quantifying things.
My 2 are very alike in some ways, similar in others and very different in some ways. I think that is typical. Growing up they were not close (possibly due to being different genders and 5 years apart in age),but have become very close as young adults. There are still things about each of them that annoy the other but they can deal with that.
I don’t know why some are surprised when they opposite kids actually get along. So many are saying that they are the opposites of their spouses…so as they say, “opposites attract” - or at least often get along!
My two are both very intelligent & very kind people. But they are also incredibly different from each other. I am not surprised, given that my four brothers & I are all completely different from each other. Even my identical twin brothers are two very different people.
@abasket funny because S17 is my husband’s clone, and D21 is mine (in looks as well)! He loves sports, not a fan of school, athletic, super social and a people pleaser. D21 is beside herself if her GPA falls below a 4.0, introvert, quiet. The only trait they seem to share is hating to clean their rooms! LOL
My girls are more similar than different, and they are best friends. The younger one is much more emotional/dramatic though.
My siblings and I are pretty similar. My sister and I have been known to separately pick out the same shoes, check designs, and clothes. Came to Christmas wearing the same shirt.
I wonder whether people tend to focus more on the differences between siblings than the similarities. I know my parents focused on the differences between my sister and me, and I suspect I did the same with my son and daughter.
2 kids here. VERY different in temperament and skill set. If I would have stopped at one kid, I’d think I was the most awesome parent in the world!
HAHAHA! Joke is on me. Seriously, it’s NOT me & my mad parenting skillz. The kids are just…different! 
I had to laugh a couple of weeks ago… for context, I have a daughter who is 22, a trans girl, 17, and a boy who is 14. The younger 2 have always been quite close - only 2 grades apart in school because of cutoff dates, and despite the trans identity the 17 year old’s interests still mesh more with the 14 year old’s (video games, anime, geek stuff in general) than the 22 year old’s. Anyway, we spent quite a lot of time in close quarters together over our family vacation so we were all getting maybe a little stir-crazy with each other, but one day my 17 year old mentioned something about how similar she and my oldest are compared to the youngest and I was like, wait, what? I always lump you in with youngest. Or if I had to say which 2 are more alike I’d say oldest and youngest, and then the middle kid is the most unique. It’s just interesting how they see themselves differently than I see them.
My two are different, but more so because they never got along. Older son always picked on his younger sister and still does to some extent now at 35 and 32! When my daughter studied abroad, my son joined her for a week of travel. I would actually receive crying phone calls from over dramatic daughter about her brother being mean; this from a 21 year old!
Now that they are both married with children, they actually get along; my son and his wife just went to visit with my daughter’s family. Never in a million years did I think they could actually be friends and want to spend time together, but it happened.
My two established that they were going to be very different right from birth. Our son was a foot first breech, necessitating a C-section. He was born almost bald, but with a light dusting of fair hair, and the first words I heard about him were not “It’s a boy!”, but “It’s a blond!” (Not many blond newborns in our city.) The footprint on the certificate the hospital provided is long and narrow. Our daughter was a VBAC delivery, and the first words said about her by the delivery nurse were “Look at all that hair!” Yup, her head was covered with a mass of very dark tresses. Her footprint is almost a perfect square shape. The two of them still don’t look remotely related (one favoring mom, the other favoring dad) and have completely different personalities. It’s like they came from different planets. Oh, and they don’t get along at all. I was too old to have a third, but I don’t think I would have been able to face the chance of having to figure out how to raise yet a third version, since nothing I learned from the first was of any use in raising the second.
@mommaj.since nothing I learned from the first was of any use in raising the second.
Such a true statement… Lol
I have “two only children,” first a girl and then, born almost six years later, a boy.
I have often said that the LEAST of the differences between them was their different sexes. D was a much more difficult child, would often become quite angry (and was the reason it took so long for me to go for another).
S is easygoing to a fault – his motto is “good enough” and nothing stresses him out. I don’t recall him ever having a temper trantrum or getting angry.
They do have a nice relationship as adults, and the interesting and wonderful thing is that they both married hard working and high achieving people who share certain traits. Coincidentally, son’s wife plays the same instruments as our D (flute and violin).
The foursome has camped and traveled together, and H and I are delighted when they make plans to spend time together independent of us. D and her family live about six hours away from us, S and his wife one hour away, but the younger generation does manage to make a point of getting together periodically during the year.
They are also supportive of each other. When S lived at home, if I would complain about him (messy room, etc.), his sister would be quick to defend him.
Guess being kids aligned against the parents was their strongest agenda over many years.