So my oldest son brought home a “My kindergarten friends” book detailing the kids in his class. While going through it with him, I was very surprised by the number of large families in the class.
- 3 families with 3 members
- 8 families with 4
- 2 families with 5
- 4 families with 6 (including ours)
- 1 family with 7
- And 2 with 8!
Now obviously this wasn’t a “scientific” study, and who knows who all was considered “in my family” but still, I was surprised to have 7 families (out of 20, 35%) of 6 or more!
I’m used to the “Miller family freakshow”! I’ve made mention before that when we go out in public, we typically get one of 3 reactions:
- From young couples or older folks it’s “Awww how cute”
- Young families with kids it’s “How do you manage 4 kids?!?”
- No-kid havers it’s “Look at that freakshow!”
2 responses to “Family sizes”
I love being a freak show. Just wait till we have 15 kids. Then won’t we freak them all out!?
Y’all could always shortcut it and go the fertility drug route like those people on TV, and have 4-6 kids at once!