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[quote=Anonymous]I have three (and both my husband and I are the middle children in three child households). Obviously I love my children and wouldn't change anything (actually, I really wanted four, but that wasn't in the cards!) A few thoughts:
- Odd numbers are hard. One kid always seems to be left out, not just in cases like two-person roller coaster rides, but also in everyday interactions. My kids - girl, boy, boy - get along so well in groups of two, but when all three are together, it always seems like some grouping of two gangs up on the odd one out. Don't know why that is.
- Two driving parents + 3 active kids is really hard to manage! Not impossible, but takes lots of creativity, flexibility, and willingness to ask other parents for help/carpools. 
- Third kid pretty babied...I know this might be my own problem, but my baby is so much more babied than the older two were, and this does sometimes have behavioral consequences. I'm sure part of it comes from my own yearnings of still wanting a baby, but a lot of it comes from doing things for him for the good of the familial unit. As an example, where I would have let one of my older kids miss an event for refusal to, say, put on shoes in time, I do it for the younger one so the older two don't have to bear the brunt of his tardiness/consequences.
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