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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like a disaster of epic proportions from the outside.  I have several friends with 3 kids.  I know they love their kids and profess to be happy, but it looks like a lot more yuck than yay.  [/quote]

I agree with this. I find every family I know with three children VERY stressful from an outside perspective. Exhausting (and I'll admit here, not to them) often embarrassing in public. No fault of the parents but you just can't be in control when you are outnumbered. I know people will take offense to this but I really do not know a single family with three where this is not the case. [/quote]

Interesting thing to think about.  I know three families with three kids.  I would say in one case, the children are hellions and totally out of control.  In the other two cases, nice enough kids but fairly unsupervised, which I personally do not think is necessarily a bad thing.  BUT, I will say lots of neighborhood and friend clucking and judging over this.  And I have first hand seen the youngest kids in these families in what are objectively not ideal safety situations.  At the same time, a generation ago it would not have been remarked upon.  Which gets to what a lot of people are saying...the expectations are different now and if you tend to parent toward the helicopter end of the spectrum (which sadly is more the norm these days), I don't see how 3-4 kids wouldn't just about kill you.[/quote]

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