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[quote=Anonymous]3 kids with 3 years between each of them.  Just forget your preconception about what family life is supposed to be.  We split up all the time -- even on family vacations.  The odds of three kids that are all different ages and all have different interests and likes/dislikes all wanting to do the same thing at the same time is really remote.  And of course I push them to sometimes do things that are not their favorite thing, and emphasize that we are a family and sometimes that means we sacrifice for the other family members.  But, at the end of the day, you can't just force a kid to be a tag along 66% of their time (and that's assuming you evenly rotate between the kids' interests.)

I have a friend with more kids, and she says that on any given day, one person in the family is going to get the short end of the stick.  (Actually, she had more colorful language, but I'll clean it up for DCUM.)  The goal should be that it's not always the same person getting the short end of the stick. [/quote]

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