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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love this thread because I can just feel the anxiety rise when I enter with all my boys.  The utter chaos and physicality just causes some peoples blood pressure to visibly rise.   I watch those folks chasing anxiously after their own child and think, Jesus, what’s the worst that can happen if he goes screaming down the hallway.

When you are outnumbered, your ability to control goes way down.  [b]That lack of control over your children allows more space for simply joy[/b].  It’s really fun to scream and yell and then they tire each other out and go to bed!  I am enjoying my kids childhoods and find that I am way less stressed than parents of fewer children who have a much stronger need to feel they are doing everything right.  [/quote]

We have a ton of joy in our family with our two girls. It doesn't require utter chaos and physicality.  :roll: [/quote]

WE ARE HAVING VERY ADULT QUIET CONTROLLED FUN IN THIS HOUSE.

Sometimes we read the New Yorker for an hour - she loves the cartoons!! - after we take a nice walk for our matching matcha lattes.  Afterwards, we walk to the park where I alternated between reading DCUM on my phone (but always with an eye on her!) and when kids get too rowdy around her I grab her and slide down the slide with her in my lap.  She loves that way better than that dirty little kid yelling at her in the sandbox for stealing his toy.  Then we go back home where was our hands.  Afternoons usually include lessons in picking up after ourselves and then coloring.  I cannot believe how she colors already inside all the lines.  The afternoon is typically a joyful trip to the Russian Math School or her violin lesson or her swim lesson or her mahjong group.  I cannot believe how amazing she is at math and music and swimming and bridge!   For dinner, we all sit down to a nice sushi meal—she loves seafood salad at five and cannot get enough.  Then she goes to bed so I can drink alone and watch my shows.  It’s really all so much fun when it’s really tightly controlled and scheduled. [/quote]

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