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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just having this conversation with my mom.  She and my dad are both one of 4 but the spacing is pretty big.  They are both 13 years older than the youngest.

We have 2 with a third on the way.  If we want to have a 4th we would have to do it pretty quickly after the 3rd due to my age.  That would make 4 kids with the oldest being 6/7 years old give or take. I feel like that is just too much.  If we had started younger we would have a bigger spacing and that might make it more doable.  But having the oldest only be 6/7 is a lot!  [/quote]

You know, everything has its pros and cons.

I have four.  I had my youngest when my oldest was 5.5.  It is a lot, and every day for years, it was a lot of physical labor.  However, it’s a lot of fun too, and the kids are really close.  I am not sure if having them further apart would have been better.  One thing that makes it easier is that they spend a lot of time playing together, playing with each other’s friends, and doing a lot of family activities together.

I have a friend with kids further apart, and she is dealing with one struggling with a transition to college, one in high school with an eating disorder, an elementary schooler who is doing great, and a preschooler who is fine, but needs constant supervision, all at the same time.  Those things all take such different parenting skills, and while in some ways it would be easier because you could give them individual attention, in some ways, it would be a struggle to try to fill all of those very different roles at once.

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