Big families present big fun, and it takes some unique approaches to raise big families. Find out about handling issues with big families such as simply matters like grocery shopping to annoying comments about your big family from strangers. Here are tips and advice for moms with big families.
Is this a big family thing? Sometimes I think the reason my 5-year-old shouts everything is because the noise level in our house is just too high for a little person to be heard otherwise. Is there such a thing as a quiet big family? Tags: loud kidsbig familiesnoisy children
A new study from researchers at Duke University, Johns
Hopkins University and the University of Maryland concludes that parents punish
older children more harshly than younger ones.
In a big family, Everyone assumes my kids wear a lot of hand-me-downs.
The truth is that I only save a few items. For one thing, I get sick of
looking at the same clothes year after year. For another thing, how
many pieces of clothing really survive rough-and-tumble children? Here is a guide to saving, storing and re-distributing hand-me-down clothing. Tags: hand me downssaving clothesorganizing hand me downsorganizing clothes
When I taught preschool (many years ago) counting heads was an ongoing activity. On the playground, on field trips, at naptime; we'd count heads everywhere. Nevermind that sometimes I had no idea how many kids were in attendance
that day.. If one was missing, as long as we'd been counting all day,
we'd know it. So now, even at home, I count my kids.
I am never sure what to think when I hear the argument about
overpopulation. Is the world really overpopulated? And is my one
mega family really making that much of a dent? Can a big family still be green? Tags: overpopulationbig familymega familygreen parentingenvironment
It's a question "moms of many" hear all the time. Sometimes, it's accompanied by a dropped jaw and really means "Are you crazy?" and sometimes it's accompanied by a wistful, glazed expression and really means "I'm secretly jealous." How do you respond to this question? Tags: big familieslarge familiesbig familylarge family
