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#	Author	Message
31	X-san Mon 5/12/2008 10:27p	I would change number one from "do you ever" to "do you frequently" though. There's nothing wrong with asking an older child to pitch in and take care of the younger ones now and then.
32	Liberty Belle Tue 5/13/2008 12:11a	I personally thought 3 and 4 were the only *really* telling questions. My sisters are 7 and 9 years older than me and would look after me when my parents went out, any chance they got ("they" being my sisters, not my parents!) And I'm only one of 3. But yeah, it was just babysitting, not looking after my whole daily routine. Still, we have no idea what happens in this family regarding that. Re number 2, families with even 2 or 3 children sometimes have to miss out on one's activities if they should clash. And my sister has 2 kids (well, 3, but one is 2 months old and not yet at the nagging stage!) and gets the whole "but HE got that, I need one too" routine all the time. Having said that, I wouldn't like being one of 18 and would NEVER have that many kids ... but I know a few large, very happy families.
33	X-san Tue 5/13/2008 2:47a	I took each question on that list to mean "do this happen frequently". Obviously, SOMETIMES a kids soccer game will clash with another ones piano recital (even in a family of two!), and you have to make a call. BUT, if that happened frequently I suppose it would mean the family is too big. On the other hand, there's not really much you can DO about it at that point, right? :p
34	Liberty Belle Tue 5/13/2008 3:39a	Yeah, that makes a difference X - it's the wording of the questions ("do you ever?") that makes it sound a bit wrong to me. And yeah ... you can't really put them back! ;)
35	dshyates Tue 5/13/2008 6:27a	"you can't really put them back! ;)" Sell them to science. Thats what I'm gonna do with my 2. My oldest is in the 6th grade and already getting attention of places like Johns Hopkins and what not. She made the highest score in the county on the standardized test, and the 4th highest in the state (caveat: we live in WV). As of now I am unemployed so obviously Johns Hopkins is out. So does anyone have the number to the lab that buys kids?
36	jdub Tue 5/13/2008 8:49a	Not that we'd admit to. This is no secure line.
37	barboy Tue 5/13/2008 9:35a	"That's funny. I thought the first four were very good measuring sticks." Well let's take a look: <<<1. Do you ever ask one of your older children to watch one of your younger children?>>> There is nothing wrong with having children watch children--- ***most of the world excels at it and the family unit thrives*** <<<2. Are you able to attend one child's activity without missing out on another?>>> Conflicting schedules are not the end of the world.....so a parent chooses one over the other no biggie. I can think of maybe 1 or 2 thngs just slightly more tramatic to a family than missing little Lucy's soccer game. In fact some parents have no business coming around to the little one's activity anyway---- better if many of them just stay away all together so they won't embarrass the little one in public with their antics. <<<3. Do you talk to each child every day about there day?>>> I'm not ready to write 5,000 words as to why that is at the very least dubious and possibly straight up asinine at face value. <<<4. Do you know all you children's friends and their parents?>>> Good God, you've got to be kidding. That would take some paranoid and or control freak as a parent. No thanks!

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