Weather kids: 6 pluses to think about

Optimal age difference doctors say three years between children in the same family. During this time, the mother's body has time to fully recover from the previous pregnancy and childbirth, the elder has grown a little, and the life is adjusted.

But many families deliberately go to give birth to weather children - with an age difference from 9 months to 1 year and 9 months. From the outside, this may seem like an adventurous undertaking, but in fact, there are many advantages and benefits in the minimum age difference between children.

1. The family is accustomed to dealing with the baby

All family members are already accustomed to the older child: they learned how to change and buy diapers, give complementary foods, pull on sliders, trim tiny nails, hold it correctly, remove dangerous objects from the accessibility zone, regularly drive to the pediatrician and for vaccinations, play "cuckoo" and "agu", crawl on the floor with a train etc.

And while all these useful skills are fresh in memory, it is easy for a family to cope with another little man. In addition, your own experience will allow you to avoid many mistakes made just recently. The entire life of a family is "on the rails" of raising a very small child, and therefore it is not necessary to make drastic changes in the usual life.

2. Everything you need is already purchased

You already have a ton of baby clothes, rattles, nappies, educational pictures, a bathtub, a highchair, a water thermometer and nasal drops. If the difference between children is big, then all this has time to move to friends and relatives, to a garage or a house in the village. And then you have to re-staff if necessary.

Now, you probably didn't even have time to get rid of the changing table and are completely ready to accept a new family member. Yes, usually in families with the same old age, younger brothers wear pink suits, and younger girls wear blue ones. But in the first couple of years, you won't be up to these outdated stereotypes.

3. A special bond is established between the weather

They are almost like twins, but no. Weather children are very attached to each other, even if in early childhood they desperately fight for toys and parents' attention. Over the years, their connection only grows stronger, there is a lot of tenderness and care for each other in it. Most likely, your weathermen will grow up to be best friends and very close people. Isn't this the dream of all parents?

4. They have similar interests

Children with a small age difference are easier to entertain: there is no need to invent a separate activity for each, as, for example, for children 3 and 8 years old. Every year the difference between the weather will be less and less noticeable, they can easily have fun together in the play center, sit in the cinema, roller-skate and run with the ball.

5. Mom will "shoot" faster with the decree

With an age difference of 3-4 years, it turns out that the mother just got out of the decree and sent the child to kindergarten, as she is already pregnant with the youngest - and all career plans are derailed again. Employers do not like such situations very much, and they can be understood.

If you have children of the same age, then you will have to stay on maternity leave for a total of 4 years, and then you can fully go to work and engage in your development. Of course, no one interferes with working on maternity leave, but not all mothers have enough time and energy for this.

6. Minimum jealousy

Jealousy of an older child can only be in the first few months after the birth of a younger child, when the parents devote a lot of time to the baby. But after 1.5 years, the elder will hardly remember the time when the younger brother or sister was not there.

They will be interested in each other - and jealousy will recede completely, if parents really try not to deprive all their children of attention and love. If the kids have a more significant age difference and there are only two of them in the family, then the elder will be jealous of the parents for many more years.

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