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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]im wondering how many of these posters have relatively small families and/or have ever taken care of more than a couple young kids at once.

1) she implies but doesn't say that the husband is home full time with the kids

2) even if he was: have you ever taken care of 5 young kids at once? i haven't; i only have 4, but that house doesn't look so different than i might think after a hard day... esp if that's clean but unfolded laundry, i'd say the parent did a decent job!

i'm not normally one of those people at all who say that if the genders were reversed the comments would be different... but let's say this were a SAH mom with a colicky baby who had prepped food for kids too young to do so themselves and hadn't had time to get to the dishes yet etc....

5 kids are a lot. you can argue it wasn't a good choice for that family or whatever, but this is what reality looks like. [/quote]

We have six kids, though two are adults and only one is staying with us through the quarantine. So four younger ones.  Our house does NOT ever look like that.  Dishes get cleaned or put in the dishwasher at the end of a meal/snack.  Every kid has two or three jobs throughout the house throughout the week to get done.  Clean laundry is folded and put away daily. Dirty laundry is in the laundry bag/hamper in bedrooms/bathrooms until it goes into the machine.  All mail goes in a box on the office bookcase. All shoes go in one of three baskets by the front door.  The key is that there is a place for EVERYTHING in the house, and everyone knows what they're supposed to do.  If DH or I leave for the day, we can come home confident that things will be orderly and clean. (Or, in the process of getting cleaned - a lot of baking happens here.)[/quote]

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