Thursday Throwdown
What makes a large family? Can parents with many children practice attachment parenting?
For me, anything more than three children is a large family. I simply cannot imagine throwing another baby into the mix here. Adoption of an older child someday, maybe, but any more biological children and I would be stretched past the limit. Other moms, though, are more flexible and may have less responsibilities away from the family that would allow even five or six children the same amount of individual time that my three receive.
Then there is the question of whether or not individual time is even as necessary as we think. If the children are spending quality with you and with their siblings, do they need daily or even weekly individual time with you? I like for my children to that have time so that I can get to know them better. With anymore children, I’m not sure how that would happen.
Anyone reading this have a family of four or more? How do you do it?
What do you folks think of the buddy system in really large families where an older child is assigned to a younger one to help in the daily care of the younger child?
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