Middle Child Hats

The middle child does not get a baby book. The oldest got the milestones logged in real time and the youngest got everyone's full attention by default; the middle one got handed down clothes and, as the family's self-appointed diplomat, a lifetime of being the one who kept the peace nobody asked them to keep. Middle child syndrome is the shorthand for this: not a diagnosis, just a running joke about the kid who negotiated every family dispute and was thanked for none of it. These hats carry that specific grievance instead of a generic sibling joke. Badges name the slot itself, plain and syndrome-flavored; sentence designs carry the sharper bits, the missing baby photos, the diplomat title nobody elected them to, the admission that "low maintenance" was actually cover for "high resentment," and the confession that under-supervision has its upside. Every line is a middle child's own joke about themselves, never a crack at the siblings who outranked them. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Pick one for your own case of middle child syndrome, or hand it to the sibling who already knows exactly which slot they got.