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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of five here. It is 100 percent easier to have 5 kids than 3. I found 3 the absolute hardest. Now my older kids entertain and help with the younger kids. The year my third was born was the least happy year of my life. I am now the happiest I have ever been since becoming a mom with my fifth almost turning one.[b] I am way more relaxed and it is 100 percent true that older kids help so much. For example on Saturday mornings I will wake up and my 12 year old has changed my toddler's diaper, turned on his cartoon, and gotten him a bowl of cheerios while I lounge in bed with DH. [/b]

What I am looking forward to is parents of 2-3 kids trying to explain why those of us with 4+ don't actually know what we are talking about when we say it's easier and we are happier than you all. [/quote]

Of course parenting is easier if you check out and dgaf.  Not really a flex, but at least 30% self-aware, and that's got to count for . . . something.[/quote]

sorry you don't get to relax saturday mornings?[/quote]
not if the kids are young, and the parent actually parents, no.

spoken like someone with a small family!

My kids are now teens, and they can take care of themselves for the most part.[/quote][/quote]

"My kids are now teens, and they can take care of themselves for the most part."

Teens need attentive parents and parenting IME.  If they are taking care of themselves "for the most part," you are doing it wrong.[/quote]

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