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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uber eats carryout every day [/quote]

I am the parent above with six kids.  For me, I think the hardest part of feeding everyone is keeping track of everybody's needs and preferences and appetites.  If I was leaving my younger kids with my 8th grader, I'd do all the dinner planning in advance and then have the food scheduled and ready to go, or I'd have very easy things to make and very specific instructions.  
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Are you saying you leave your 8th grader home alone with 5 younger kids?  It's hard to believe, but I don't have experience with big families.  I don't know many 8th graders who could handle 5 younger kids for more than a coup hours.[/quote]

Older girl in a large family here. I was definitely expected to pitch in with caring for a younger sibling but never all of them, and certainly never alone with no other adult for an extended time period. The one time I did watch the teens when I was in my 20s when my parents were on a trip (I think they took the youngest one with them, who would have been about 13) they were totally out of control and I’m lucky I didn’t end up criminally charged for all the underage drinking. I had to basically confiscate all the car keys and tell the kids there they had to either call their parents or stay overnight. [/quote]

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