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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have what people on this board would consider an unseemly number of children. (And of course we know we don’t get invited over as a family to most people’s homes, though we do have many play dates and we host others constantly. It’s a ship that sailed once we got to three so it wasn’t a strong enough factor to stop having kids.) It was an only child who came over and broke our TV. Another only child who came over and bit everyone. I host only children, small families and big families all the time. I’ve done this enough to know when you need to send the whirlwind of kids outside or change their activity before things get wild. I don’t blame all families of only children for the damage those kids have done to my home or peace. The high and mighty us v them rhetoric here is laughable.[/quote]

In my kids’ grade I’ve known of literally ONE family that had 3 kids - out of 32 families. They were there for one year.  About half the class are only and the other half is 2 kids.  In my neighborhood (on my street) exactly ZERO families have 3 kids. Needless to say, we don’t host families of 3 very often.  My brother’s family has 3 - their house is a tiny chaotic but they’ve never brought the chaos with them - all 3 are lovely and play with my kids quietly and nicely.  Their home is mostly neat and tidy. The chaos comes from all the activities and sports - someone is always running somewhere and needs to find or organize something.[/quote]

It’s unlikely that you know the family situation of every single kid in your child’s class.  People may have older kids that they don’t bring to events, kids from previous relationships that they don’t have much custody of, etc.  [/quote]

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