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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]6 years between mine.  They're at different developmental stages, so we divide and conquer often.  However, no sibling rivalry, they love each other to pieces, older one look after the little one, who looks up to her so much!  Lots of individual time for each so they both think they're our favorites - and they're both right.

Pros and cons to each way you do it. Just take what God gives you and work with that.  [/quote]

Mine are 6, almost 7 yrs. apart.  I feel exactly the same way.  My own sibling and I are 8 years apart and everything turned out fine.

Some other people spoke about not being able to do things together.  It depends on the activity.  As long as the parents are dividing fairly, the kids actually enjoy getting that one-on-one time with a parent doing something fun and interesting.  It's not always a bad thing...I remember having to flip a coin to decide who got to leave the crowded beach and go take the littler one back to the hotel pool and have a tiki drink.  [/quote]

Yeah my husband and I use the divide-and-conquer strategy a lot. Or we find things both kids can enjoy in different ways. Our kids have very different personalities one is a very extroverted, dramatic, social butterfly and a daredevil. The other is more cautious introverted and introspective. I think that has made it the most interesting contrast between the two of them more than their age or gender[/quote]

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