Living life the larger family way
Looking back at your childhood, I’m sure like many you have found memories of hiding out in your ‘den’ with your friends. Who wouldn’t enjoy the freedom of your own space for you and your friends to hang out without the parents there telling you what to do? Today, children still love their own [...]
After a recent post on children and chores, Gen takes a peek from under her laundry pile to share her advice on teaching kids this important skill. After all, they’re going to need clean clothes when they’re older, right?! Gen is a mum of five and blogs over at: www.girlsandsunflowers.blogspot.com. You can also [...]
Last month I put an update on the Larger Family Life Facebook page telling of my plans to write a third book. Well, the book is underway but this time, you get to feature! I am looking for parents of large families of four or more children to share their tips and advice or [...]
According to a recent study in America the more children, the happier the marriage. Well, not strictly, as it also found that couples with no children were reported as being happy too. Researchers W Bradford Wilcox and Elizabeth Marquardt used data from the Survey of Marital Generosity to ascertain that married couples with [...]
Suddenly my own family doesn’t seem so large! Feodor Vassilyev, a Russian peasant from Shuya, Russia and his first wife whose name nobody knows had a total of 69 children between 1725 and 1765. Amazingly for the time (as if that wasn’t amazing enough) 67 of the children survived. During her life, Feodor’s wife [...]
More recently I have been getting a lot more questions on how I have managed to earn some kind of an income while working from home. I haven’t been stuffing envelopes or taking in ironing – actually, I did do the ironing thing eighteen years ago but not recently! With almost every home [...]
