“Must be the third kid thing.” That’s what one of the other moms said to me as we were both watching our youngest children play fourth grade basketball as if their lives depended on it. Like me, the other mother had two older kids who, when confronted with a ball they were supposed to steal from another child, could take it or leave it. But our youngest ones—our “thirds”—clearly had something to prove.

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