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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the friend of several families with three children, I'd say don't do it.  It will be an 8-9 year gap between the oldest & youngest making it virtually impossible to find activities that work well for everyone.   For example, (kids are 12, 10, 5) can't even all go to the same movie.  They generally spend the weekends split up, one parent with older kids, one with the younger. [/quote]

That's a pretty limiting view of family life. My two kids are 6 years apart. Are there challenges for us as parents? Yes, but probably no more than if they were 2 years apart (which always struck me as very difficult, at least early on). Will it matter when they're adults? No! My siblings are 3, 7, and 10 years older than I am. As adults, I'm closest to the 2 oldest ones. As children, we had many all-family experiences and many split-into-2-groups experiences. I also loved when my older siblings babysat for us. Think outside the 2-kids-2-years-apart box and do what sounds best for your family, OP.

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I think there are a lot of DCUM parents of 1 or 2 who subconsciously envy families with 3 children. Whenever someone posts about wanting a third, there are a bunch of naysayers who don’t themselves have 3.[/quote]

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