I see a lot of this with my 10. “Always someone to play with,” my four youngest boys (12, 10, 7, 4) are like a pack of Rottweilers. They seem to have a group mind: they can play a computer game in their brains when we’re in the van, all perfectly clear on what’s happening.
And older children with younger ones. My 17-year-old son is so close with my 2-year-old daughter. “Tom! Where’s Tom!” He showed her a video of elk on his iPod, and now every time I sit down at the computer, she climbs on my lap and says, “The elks now! Tom!” (It’s 9 minutes. Maybe she’ll be a wildlife biologist.)
The Duggars are amazing people!
May God bless and prosper them and all their progeny, always and in all ways!
This family is amazing, if I could have I would have had 20 kids
God bless this family!
Very nice! My parents were both from families with 9 children. While my Dad has few fond memories of his 5 brothers, my Mom has always been close to her siblings.
I’m impressed that they have no debt. Amazing.
The oldest son of the Bates is running for Anderson County Mayor. He’s been on the County Commission several years now.
I was the oldest of seven and my parents have adopted more since getting rid of some of us. I wouldn’t have traded the experience, but it’s not always fun and games. My parents were careful to make sure that my sisters and I (they had three girls then a passel of boys) didn’t get roped into being spare mommies, like a lot of my friends were.
It’s nobody’s business but theirs how many kids they have, but the thing I see in a number of large families I’ve known is that Mom concerns herself with the nursing child and leaves the other kids to older siblings. Nothing wrong with helping out your family, but kids raising kids doesn’t work very well. They need adult input and oversight.
I just read that there is a petition to keep this show going. Anyone know about it?