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?
I can't wait to hear responses from other large family mommies, so feel free to comment below.
I have six girls, and I'm always thinking of snappy responses like an hour later. When they ask, I always just say "yes" with a big goofy grin on my face. What I want to say is "yes, and I am the luckiest mommy in the world" or sometimes "yes, would you like a few?"
Being the father of a bunch of girls, my husband has come up with several funny responses, but the best reactions always come when he says "you see them, too?"
Perhaps someday I'll be able to think fast on my feet, but to be honest, "yes" just seems like the fastest answer, and I'm afraid if I get involved in a deep conversation I'll misplace one of them.
Yes, as mama of 6 I get that question! I don't mind most of the time, people are just curious. Occasionally there is rudeness accompanying the question, but not very often. I'd never heard "You see them, too?" as a response! LOL I'm going to use it next time!
Large families seem to evoke strong reactions in people - either they're excited and in favor of it or they feel you have somehow created a burden on *them* by having so many children. My own mother's reaction to finding out my sister was pregnant with her 4th child? "You DO know where babies come from, right?!" Um, hello, could you be more rude?
A friend who homeschools her large brood gets all kinds of invasive, personal questions from total strangers when they realize the size of her family. She has 5 boys, 1 girl and is expecting a new blessing soon. People ask her, "So is this the last one?" Um, is it any of your business?! And, "If it's a girl, will you be done?" Isn't it amazing how brazen people can be when it relates to *other* people's reproduction?
Oh, and don't even get me started on the Duggar family!! I envy them so much. What a happy well-adjusted, loving, wonderful family!! And yet, a message board I belong to had all the other mamas repeating how "sad" it was that those children didn't get 1-on-1 time with the mom and dad. Since when did that become the most important factor of being a member of the family? I've watched the show - each new baby sleeps in the nursery which is in the mom & dad's room. There is 18 months on average between kids, so that's probably 12-18 months of being the sole baby sleeping in mom & dad's room. Then, those kids have 17 brothers & sisters to look up to, play with, be close to, etc. I cannot see the drawbacks (besides the amount of laundry and cooking LOL).
I'm at 4 and angling for 5 in the next year. After that... well, if we buy a 12 or 15 passenger van, who knows?! lol
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