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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmmmmmm.  My oldest is 31.  Youngest is 19.  I'm not sure it ever got easier.  It just changes.  At some point, especially with five kids, I just learned to accept that there will always be someone in crisis, either big ones or little ones.  I learned to let go and trust that they were all on their own unique paths. And I embraced the controlled chaos.  But, I was a SAHM when my kids were little.  I think that made the earlier years much more manageable.

Sleep helps a ton.  Once everyone consistently sleeps though the night, you feel more able to get through the long days.[/quote]

This was not my experience. Once I got sleep it was exponentially easier and then once the kids were in school full time it again got exponentially easier.

I did read that once you have four kids it gets easier because you just learn to not worry so much, but with two, things are now really easy with the kids ages 9 and 12 and have been decently easy since they were 4 and 7 (the oldest used to be very taxing emotionally and that got better around 10 but I think that’s unusual). [/quote]

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