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[quote=Anonymous]My kids are pretty young but my friend from high school has 4 amazing kids aged 15, 15, 17 and 19. When they were little she was completely overwhelmed with babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers. She was so overwhelmed she made them very self reliant early (they had to learn to dress themselves at a young age, make themselves a sandwich, take care of their homework themselves, get themselves to swimming practice, etc.) A lot of the time the kids were a mess. They showed up at swimming practice without a towel or missing one sock. People definitely judged the parents since the kids seemed like a mess.

Now they are such independent, mature, kind and thoughtful kids. The two older ones work part-time (the oldest started his own small business). The oldest is a stem major at a great university and the second oldest was admitted to a stem program at a great university. The twins are doing very well too. I love spending time with those kids and I hope mine turn out just like them.[/quote]

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