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ORIGINAL POST:
(A post which is alternately titled: Who needs a doll when she’s got the real thing?)
A while back, I wrote this post about the Duggar family, musing as to the possible answers to the question “Do they have too many children?” If you read that post, you already know that my opinion was “Apparently not,” along with “Is it really our business?”
There are those who firmly believe, however, that having 19 children is about as wise as letting a toddler play with SuperGlue, as smart as walking outside during a blizzard in bare feet and as responsible as leaving your oven on when you go on vacation.
Which is to say, not wise, not smart and not responsible.
I’m personally not in that camp (Though I think it’s fine if you are, but for your own well-being you might just want to not continue to read this post.), but I know there are some people who are. People who think having many, many children is not a good idea because it’s inappropriate for “children to be raising children.”
Which, again, is fine. It’s just, Heavens to Betsy, I surely hope those people weren’t a fly on our wall last night!
Our newly turned 2 year old was feeding, at her request, of course, our newly turned 1 year old his bedtime bottle.
Stellan didn’t look comfortable to me, but who am I to judge? He lay like that and downed his whole bottle. Mama Small Fry was pleased as punch.
And today, a whole new world has opened up before me.
I had our 4 year old clip the baby’s nails, our 3 year old pour the cereal at breakfast, our 2 year old vacuum the floors and our 1 year old pick up grapes off the floor*.
Just kidding.
*Well, except this one. It’s actually true.
For the most part, I do all the kid stuff. Feed the bottles. Change the diapers. Wipe the noses. Make the sandwiches. There is no children raising children at our house.
But still, just to be safe, please don’t invite the anti-Duggar people over to our house at Stellan’s bedtime.
Seeing babies raising babies might be just a little too much for them.
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