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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It gets harder as they get older and have school work, projects, social lives and activities. I have 3 who are now in late elementary and middle school and it's a lot to keep up with and I'm much busier than my friends with 2 kids are. When they were young I didn't notice it as much--feeding 3 kids vs. 2 isn't much different. Putting 3 kids to bed vs. 2 isn't much different. But trying to consistently be 3 places at once (now that they all have busy lives outside of our family) makes our family feel much busier than my friends with 2 kids and infinitely busier than our friends with 1 kid. [/quote] Agree. I only have two. I wanted another when they were a baby and toddler but DH did not. Now they are both in ES and I am so glad we stopped at 2. My fiends with three seem so crazy busy all the time. [/quote] We are stopping at two also. Sometimes I love the idea of a family with three but frankly so many of the stages seem so hard. If you have a baby and elementary schoolers / preschoolers, you cart the baby everywhere. Once the baby becomes an elementary schooler, you have so much trouble juggling activities and can never feel present in everyone’s things. The families I know with three all seem stretched very thin. I struggled with this as I love the idea of a bigger family but we are set now. Mine are seven and five [/quote] Me exactly. I considered a third because I love my kids and I love spending time with them. But eventually I came to the conclusion that having a third would not increase my enjoyment more, it would just stretch me thinner and probably give me less time to enjoy the kids -- I'd spend more time just taking care of their basic needs, and have less time to cuddle, read stories and just hang out. [/quote]
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