Got a big family?

I want 8 myself, and I'm sick of people saying, "Just wait till you have ONE!"
I've personally written at length about how to make ends meet with a big family.

I'm one of two. My mom is one of four, and my dad is one of eight.

 

I have a huge family! My dad has 8 siblings and they are all married with kids and grand children. My mom comes from a family with two other siblings and two of them are married with kids.
Family functions are scary...

 

My grandpa (on my mom's side) had 8 siblings (I'm pretty sure) and my grandpa on my dad's side had around 5 or 6. My maternal grandma has one sister and my paternal grandma's an only child. Both my mom and my dad have two brothers each, and I only have one (not to mention only 3 cousins, all from my dad's side). I don't think I'd want a big family...3 kids at the most, thanks. I've got friends with big families and it's just too confusing and chaotic. We've got a family in town that homeschools their kids and so far they have 9, working on 12, I believe. Can you imagine homeschooling a group that big? And they're super-strict, no tv, no electronics. The very idea blows my mind, I can't imagine having 9 kids, let alone 9 kids and no electronic means of entertainment. I suppose they've got plenty of playmates, though, and healthy imaginations. I should hope so.

 

I am the eldest of nine (good Catholic family).

 

All 4 of my grandparents were part of big families - the smallest having 8 siblings. Irony: only 2 or 3 kids from each of these 4 families got married and had kids, so the number of cousins I have are quite small.

 

My father's parents had seven kids. They needed that many "back in the olden days" because they needed someone to work the farm. They couldn't afford farm equipment, and someone had to do the crop picking! Each of them have at least three kids...and some of them have kids too. It's a big family.

My mom's parents only had three kids, with three kids each and two of them each have two kids.

 

my mom is the oldest of eight biological children, plus six more adopted, and heaven only knows how many foster kids. Gramma brags about having 20 kids in the house at one point. Grampa drove a school bus for a while, with only one stop, their house. Now they're all grown, and not very close. Mom resents always having to be the babysitter for the little ones.

I can imagine homeschooling a large family much easier than I can imagine dealing with the behavioral and emotional issues that almost always arise from institutionalized education.

 

I suppose you're right, especially with our town's corrupted school system.