Keepers by the Dozen (raising large families)

National Catholic Register ^ | July 10, 2006 | GINA GIAMBRONE

[Northern Yankee]

Too funny.

I don't think the remote was even invented yet... as a matter of fact, we probably still had the old RCA black and white tv. ; )

[RepubMommy]

Thanks doe posting this, I have 3 children and that is it for me, I would have loved to have more, but it's not financially feasible for us. Kudos to those that can do it.

[RepubMommy]

How old were you when you first held a baby? I'm happy to say that I was 7 and helped take care of a younger sister. I considered it an honor and a privilege [to help].

It was the same for me, I have 2 siblings and am the oldest. I was 7 and 9 respectively when the younger two were born. My oldest is 7 years older then the baby and she helps me too. The oldest should help out to some degree, whether it is 2 siblings or 5.

[RepubMommy]

I have a 4 y/o. That is awful, prayers to them and their little angel.

[kstewskis]

I don't think the remote was even invented yet... as a matter of fact, we probably still had the old RCA black and white tv. ; )

Who would have thought that the invention of the remote could have coincided with another form of birth control?

Amazing, that.

[redgolum]

You know what running a dairy entails and grandpop was not up to it. He stayed in the house and had coffee while my Dad handled the cows. For more than ten years my Dad was in charge, and learned be jack of all trades. This served him well and went into the oil field, where he helped support the family by sending half his pay home.

My Grandpa was the opposite! He drove out to the farm every day except Sunday until his 80's. We kind of wished he would stay inside and drink coffee sometimes. When my step Grandma (Grandpa became a double widower) went to the nursing home, he gave that up and spent five years driving to the see her every day. That taught me what love really is.

Farm work is the best preparation for process and construction engineering that I know of. Knowing the right and wrong way to do things like change out augur flighting has served me very well so far.