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This is amazing. I have so often wondered how it would be to be in yours or one like it family with lots of members. It is lonely being an only child. All three of our grandchildren are only children, it is a totally different existence I think than multiple relationships. Yours seems to be a broad scope of different sorts of people who all love one another regardless, that is awesome.
posted by
Justi
on May 18, 2015 at 9:21 PM
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🍄I’ve been there but not now love. B-A, Bill’s Rst
posted by
BC-A
on May 18, 2015 at 2:30 PM
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It is interesting to see family interaction.
I was always amazed at Richard's family. From the time they hit the door, every one was talking different subjects and answering a different conversation at the same time. Brooke always managed to join in but Blake and I just sit back and watched.
posted by
skye08
on May 17, 2015 at 6:49 PM
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This is a fascinating topic. Always interested me that some people are
your best bud when nobody else is around, but in the company of others they tend to toss off little put-downs. Some people I've known tend to do that with many others. Don't think this hypocrasy is conscious, but it's def. there.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 17, 2015 at 7:52 AM
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I think many of the old theories are now out due to daycare and mass media exposure, working parents, etc.....but I can tell you from raising one and being one in two different generations...and being an inveterate people watcher myself - ones esp interested in the subject - that the main things that won't vary which are a challenge for onlies: learning to compete appropriately (they don't have to), learning to fail appropriately (they arent supposed to, not really), and learning to fight appropriately (again, they don't have to). These are all things parents just can't do - appropriately - with their children And leave them prepared for the world. That said, there are a LOT of benefits, too. But, each life is what we make it and with the love she has...and the genes.....watch out world!
posted by
Krisles
on May 16, 2015 at 4:28 PM
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A very interesting subject to discuss. People you observed should help you find the answers to all the questions
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on May 16, 2015 at 10:47 AM
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I enjoy people watching as well...It is always interesting to watch family members in action, interacting with one another.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 16, 2015 at 10:07 AM
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Really interesting sunject you are exploring here dear Taps.
One can look from the outside and feel that another family has managed to get everything right and then find that there are dark secrets or internal struggles occurring. I am a bit sad that our Baisy is to be an only child. I only have one sibling...Big Sis and altho. we have trouble getting along we do love each other a great deal.
posted by
Kabu
on May 16, 2015 at 7:09 AM
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Family dynamics are the stuff of novels and of history, LOL...And where could Baisy have picked up those expressions, I wonder - probably when she was visiting friends...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 16, 2015 at 6:48 AM
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