large families

What is the age gap between your 2nd and 3rd child? Do you like your gap, or would you prefer something different? We currently have 2-under-2. I’m over 35 so have a bit of a time crunch when it comes to planning #3, but I’m not sure we can mentally or financially handle 3-under-3 😬 Please...

I'm a mom of 5 under 7 and I have successfully potty trained my oldest two children using the OH Crap! Potty Training method so we are using it again with our middle child C. I wanted to potty train C when she was a little younger because she was showing signs of readiness (taking off her...

My boys, 9 and 6.5, share a bedroom. Currently, bedtime on school nights is 8pm. Very reasonable, and my youngest boy totally needs it. My oldest is really wanting a later bedtime, and I believe he can handle 9pm. However, his brother will probably flip out about it not being fair if his...

Ok, so recently I was looking for ways to start funding my kiddo's future (we have four of them and yeah, I'm going to be working forever haha). Anyways, I started to look at some ways to stash some money aside for my kids. I ended up turning this into a video project on YT (Link - ) and...

Cross-posted in r/Parenting My fiancé (36M) and I (33F) have 4 kids total. 2 from his marriage and 2 from mine. His kids are J (11F) and JJ (5M) and mine are G (8M) and L (5F). Yesterday my fiancé told me that his 11 year old J told him she resents me because I am 3 months pregnant w/baby #5...

I’m 3 weeks postpartum, 2 (7,5) of my kids are back at school, 2 and 1 year old at home and hubster goes back to work tomorrow. My supply isn’t meeting baby’s needs so I’m just nursing around the clock and pumping when I’m not nursing. What sorts of things do you do postpartum to make things...

Edit to title: Teenage son has a Snapchat gf Okay… so I am 31 (f) who adopted 4 teenagers 3 years ago. Still struggling on being a mom. And struggling with the disrespect the comes with teenagers. They were siblings and never spent time in the system, just spent time with drug addicted...

I have lived a very strange life with more interesting things happening to me than I ever could have imagined. I went in search of a podcast that would help me feel like someone, anyone, out there understood the experiences u was going through. I found so many self help type ones, or strongly...

My fiancé (36M) and I (33F) have a blended family: J(10F), G(8M), L(5F), and JJ(5M). My kids (G&L) are from my marriage, and his kids (J&JJ) are from his marriage. It’s obvious to me that my fiancé favors his daughter J over all the other kids, and he has readily admitted this on several...

I have four kids whose ages range from 8 to 16 and it can be hard to check on each one to make sure they’re starting their day off right; not just mindlessly hopping on screens and shirking responsibilities. They each have unique needs and duties but I’ve narrowed it down to 4 things they ALL...

My partner and I wanted a big family (minimum 3 - which could be small to some people but we live in a high cost of living city so that’s a lot to our peers lol). I’m a SAHM, my partner works in data science and we’re fairly comfortable financially. We have a big enough living space to...

Today we were at a playground. When we left for the short walk down the street to where the car was parked, my 5 y/o was in a state and obsessed with the fact that cars aren’t the only ones allowed on the street, even though I reiterated more than once that we needed to walk on the sidewalk. I...

Hi all— we are in the beginning stages of a pre-adoptive foster care placement. The kiddos haven’t come to our house yet but unless something changes it’s highly highly likely that they will be on their way in the next few weeks/month. We are going to go from zero kids to 3–7(F), 9(F), and 15...

My 2 and 4 year old share a room and every morning they are up SUPER EARLY. I’m talking 4:15am sometimes I’ll hear them messing around in their room. Lately though, they’ve been getting out of bed and going downstairs and watching tv (my 4 year old can identify the Netflix button on the...