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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do. There is a spread in the kids ages. We have no outside help anymore - when they were smaller, we had a nanny. Now camps in the summer. Occasionally older one watches younger one, but that is rare and we pay $ when that happens.

Very little family help. Maybe once a season we ask for help. No extra help from neighbors.

We schedule car pools with other parents, but we do our fair share of the driving in the carpools.

We both have very flexible jobs and neither one of us has an overly demanding job.

I actually know several families with 4 kids where both parents work, so I find this to be an odd question. [/quote]

I'm not the OP, but I don't understand why this is an odd question. You mentioned several factors that might make having four kids more manageable, including having a nanny, a spread in ages, using an older sibling to watch the younger one, scheduling carpools with other parents, and having flexible and not very demanding jobs.

I have three kids who are close in age and did not have family help or a nanny and can absolutely say that without family or paid help, help, parenting three can be difficult to manage.[/quote]

So why is this question specific to parents with 4 kids? 3 are hard, even 2 can be hard under certain circumstances.

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Do you have kids? As a parent of three, the answer to this question is blindingly obvious.[/quote]

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