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[quote=Anonymous]Military or not - the experience of large families I know are just different.  The baby is left in the highchair with some food while the parents continue on with other things vs an interactive feeding.  Toddlers / preschoolers are often allowed outside with slightly older kids and just kind of tag along with the "big kids" a lot of the day.  Baths are less frequent, clothes are what the kids choose (with minimal wrestling into mittens figuring a cold child will come back in), bedtime happens in bulk with a book read to all the kids versus individual bedtimes.  Most don't leave the house nearly as often and there are fewer acitvities - which is reasonable b/c what's the point of making 4 kids sit at another's ballet class when they have all 5 to play with at home.

Its a lot more free wheeling, independent, and the parents are the managers / help vs the platmate.

This isn't a values statement that one way is better than the other or "low" vs "high" standards.  Just a very different model.

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