Family sizes
01-Oct-07
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!”
