NP here. I hope I never meet you IRL, PP. you are truly awful. |
Your mom seems like a high achiever! Good for her. Also,to the PP above, it’s silly to ask whether she had a good life . She chose to have 4 kids, obviously her idea of a good life is life spent surrounded by kids. I have the same idea though I am not a high achiever. |
Oh, it’s not fresh food. It’s usually processed, because it’s hard to cook from scratch for such a large group, and not the best quality because it’s expensive. There’s nothing fun having to haul bags of groceries every other day and one can’t even stock up for a week of vacation because of sheer quantity. plus the natural resources are getting depleted at alarming rate. |
What makes you think they all launch well? DH is from a family of four and only half of them are well off financially. The other two struggled with bankruptcies, bills, etc. |
Stop just yapping. Just like small families, some large families place a priority on cooking and eating fresh food, and some don't. I find it's actually more motivating to cook from scratch for a larger group because the alternative (like takeout or buying school lunches) is very expensive for more kids and it's easier to invest time in cooking a fresh meal when lots of people are going to enjoy it versus two empty nesters. I have 6 kids and cook 4-5 full family dinners a week, usually making a double batch so my kids can take leftovers for lunch. I cook more than most parents with two kids that I know. If you can't figure out the grocery store and have invested so much thought in having to "haul bags of groceries every other day and one can’t even stock up for a week of vacation because of sheer quantity" and you think that's what makes a large family hard, it is 100% definitely out of your abilities. The only thing you said that makes any sense is regarding the environmental impact, but that's not the topic at hand. It's just an additional jab you've thrown in. Maybe try being a little more open minded? You clearly have no clue what it's like to manage groceries if you think it's impossible to shop at one time for a week, nor do you have any intention to listen to people who actually do have experience. I may not be a perfect parent, but at least my kids are kind and open minded to other family dynamics. |
Four isn't "huge" so clearly it's not only large families that fail to launch. I think you just demonstrated that. |
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OP here. I am not talking about 4 kid families. To qualify for this discussion, you must have at least 8-10 children (and ideally born within a 10 year time span; ie you are popping out child after child).
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