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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many many factors impact how hard or difficult parenting is.  But  undoubtedly, the difficulty goes up with the number of children. Sure, older kids help out a bit with younger kids and they do play together, but not really.  Kids close in age play together, but not kids with a five, 10 year age gap.   Plus there  is no way of getting around the mental load, and the schedules, and the paperwork, and the finances, and the emotional issues (the older kids can't manage that for the younger ones!), and the sports equipment, and practices, and games etc. etc. of. having five kids.  It's harder, no doubt.

But moms of many kids should just own it. You wanted a big family and you have it!  There are a lot of benefits of having many kids, but being easier is NOT one of them, so stop trying to make that argument.  [/quote]

Children with 5-10 year age gaps stilly play with each other!! It has many benefits. See Montessori method.[/quote]

At this age gap, they are not “playing together”, the older one is entertaining with the younger one. A 10 or a 15 year old are playing with a 5 year old, the same way an adult would play with a 5 year old. [/quote]

Oh my gosh people. Do none of you have experience with actual kids? By far the kids who grow up the fastest, in general, are only children. And I’m not saying people should have 1, or 2, or any number of kids. But seriously, my 14 year plays with my 5 year old a lot and it’s good for both of them. It keeps the 14 year old young and the 5 year old wants to do everything his older brother does. And yea there are negatives as well, which is that the older one doesn’t get as many tailored activities for teens like trips to more grown up places, and the younger one knows curse words.

But this whole debate is idiotic and most of the responses here are idiotic as well. [/quote]

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