Reply to Can anyone talk about a four year age gap between children?

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "Can anyone talk about a four year age gap between children?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, of course. DD and DS are 5 years apart and very close. It has everything to do with personality and your family lifestyle (whether you do everything together and how parents guide the sibling relationship), not with the age gap.[/quote]

I'm the above poster and find it very interesting to read others' personal experiences, since I'm an only child.

I suppose it's difficult to bring together very different personalities, but that can happen with children close in age too. At least parents can consciously do things as a family instead of increasing the gap. My second came to all my oldest's rehearsals and practices even as a baby (I was all ready to bolt if she became loud), and my oldest now goes to my youngest's concerts. We always do trips together, even if one kid is a little too old or too young, they always end up enjoying the outing. For example, DS wanted to go to the Spy museum when DD was 4 and couldn't read the exhibit texts. We stayed there for 3 hours because DD demanded that my husband read to her and explain nearly every artifact within her line of vision. And we lost DS for an hour because he was so absorbed that he didn't notice we had moved on. Same for Mount Vernon, or any travel, big or small, that we've done. Even when you're worried one of them is going to get bored, everyone finds something interesting. It's a sharing state of mind that parents can foster so that the family stays bonded.
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics