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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure 6 months in is enough time to know whether you’d be able to handle a third. 
We have 3 in 4.5 years. Two working parents no nanny or family help. We thrive in chaos and even thought of a fourth. Kids are in elementary now and it’s even more chaotic with three schedules for sports etc. DH and I are both from families of 4 — so I’m sure that plays into this. [/quote]

I'd argue you don't know yet the strain of 3 until you get to high school ages.[/quote]

I want to hear more!  Is it because of college prep stress?  Hormones?

I keep hearing it gets more difficult, but it’s hard for me to understand why. Your kid can do their own homework, make their own meals, do their own laundry, and after 16 drive themselves everywhere. Seems like the dream![/quote]

I have three teenagers now. My father always said that kids are a physical challenge when they are young, but switch to a mental challenge as they get older. I find that to be true. The sheer exhaustion of three toddlers goes away. The kids can do their own laundry, wake to alarms, be left home alone while you run errands, etc.  But the issues become how to help one kid struggling with pre-algebra, another with anxiety issues worrying about college applications, another dealing with the heartbreak of their first romantic breakup, etc. The logistics of three kids with different interests participating in different activities is overwhelming too.

Overall they aren’t harder now than when they were little, but it is very different. [/quote]

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