{"id":5146,"date":"2015-09-10T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=5146"},"modified":"2015-09-09T14:34:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:34:27","slug":"young-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/09\/10\/young-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people assume that being the youngest child of a family is synonymous with being a spoiled brat, but I think otherwise.\u00a0 Has anyone ever thought that maybe a child is a spoiled brat because their parents allow that? I, for one, am the youngest of four children and work for everything in life. For me, this is easily relatable to classic country music. Many songs like Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201c9 to 5\u201d express hardworking woman, without discriminating against age or what number child you are. \u00a0\"dolly-parton-press-2014-650-430\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sure, there will be spoiled brats that just so happen to be the youngest child, but that goes for all stereotypes.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more to being the youngest than just getting people to see you for you. Some of the biggest issues of being the youngest child are \u201cHow will I get people to stop stereotyping me?\u201d or \u201cWill I ever be able to break out of the shadows of my older siblings?\u201d<\/p>\n

Frankly, I can\u2019t help if my parents look at me as their \u201cbaby\u201d because I am. I\u2019ll admit that, but it doesn\u2019t mean I had any control over the matter. As soon as people hear I\u2019m the youngest of four kids, they automatically begin to assume I\u2019m either a trouble maker (which in fact is my sister-number 3) or I get what I want. While “The Baby”<\/a>\u00a0by Blake Shelton tunes into the youngest child stereotype, it also does a great job of describing how my mother sees me.<\/p>\n