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[quote=Anonymous]My first two kids are three and a half years apart. The third is 10 years younger than the oldest. They are very close.

Here’s the thing I had to grapple with. When you have an age gap you have to decide whether you want to hold your older
Kids back from doing age appropriate things because the age appropriate things for them are not appropriate for the youngest or allow the youngest to hang with the older kids even though they are doing things that are really too old for the youngest or separate your kids into two groups.

I opted to let my youngest experience things at a younger age than I ever thought I would because I didn’t want to separate her from the older kids and I didn’t want the older kids to be treated like babies. It’s somewhat comedic when we’d realize that a scary part was about to happen in a movie and all of us would dive to cover her eyes and ears. I don’t regret my decision because, like I said, my kids are very close and really enjoy each other’s company. [/quote]

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