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Preserving the Innocence of Childhood with Teens at Home {Episode 212}
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It's no surprise that we love our teenagers, but when you also have young children at home, it can be tricky to respect the teens and their autonomy while still protecting the innocence of your little ones.
Today we're talking about how to address this issue in the media usage of your home, the mature themes, and mature language that teens tend to bring into the home, but that might not be appropriate for young eyes and ears. Is this something your family has struggled with?
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Transcript
Preserving Childhood Innocence
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello and welcome back to Outnumber the Podcast. You are listening to episode 212 and we are talking about preserving the innocence of our little ones while we have teens or older kids around. So if you have experienced this, then you know there's frustration and hopefully some of our tips are going to help you today. We're going to talk specifically about media usage, controlling that media that comes in your home and making sure the little kids only see appropriate stuff.
00:00:22
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talking about mature themes with your older kids or your husband, and also mature teen language, as well as lots of other tips and tricks for getting those little kids to stay innocent and pure even while the big kids are around. So let's do it.
Meet the Hosts: Audrey and Bonnie
00:00:40
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Outnumbered the Podcast. I'm Audrey. And I'm Bonnie. We are experienced moms to a combined total of 19 children. In our weekly episodes, we explore relatable topics using our perspectives of humor and chaos. Tune in for advice and encouragement to gain more joy in your parenting journey.
Parenting Across Age Gaps
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Speaker
Hello friends, welcome back to the podcast. We have a fun episode for you today, specifically for those of you who have older kids and younger kids home at the same time. Now this might seem like it only appeals to families with a wide range, but it also applies
00:01:22
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if you have kids at home still when some other kids start bringing home grandkids or nieces and nephews around teenagers and that sort of thing. So anytime there's a mix of ages, family reunions, this comes up and that is trying to preserve the innocence of the little ones while there are big kids around saying and doing
00:01:42
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mature things that we don't want our little kids exposed to.
Age-Related Challenges in Parenting
00:01:45
Speaker
So that is what we're talking about today. To start off, each of us is just going to explain really quickly what our family looks like right now so you know where we're coming from and see if you can relate it all. So right now, my oldest is 17. He turns 18 this year. He's prepping to leave home and has all these dreams and goals. My youngest is almost two, so we have the whole gamut and all kinds of issues with trying to keep those younger ones protected from the stuff the older kids are into.
Kids' Innocent Humor
00:02:11
Speaker
Yeah since we've been doing the podcast for a few years now you might have lost track of how many kids we have and what their ages are and all that. So we have nine kids. Our oldest is 24 and married and then our youngest is a couple months away from being four. So we have about a 20 year age spread between ours. The oldest two are moved out and
00:02:38
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all the way down to the littles who have a ways to go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I know probably so many of us have funny things that we could share about little kids saying things that are inappropriate, especially like out and about, right? But our latest kid phrase that cracks us up is, my three-year-old loves to call everybody hypocrips. Have I said this already?
00:03:00
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It's the funniest thing ever. Somebody got it in their wheelhouse that hypocrite was like an insult, a bad insult. And so they started calling that to each other and the three-year-old picked up, only doesn't say it right. And that's the cutest thing ever. You're such a hypocrite, dad. And we just dissolve into giggles. I
Managing Media Exposure
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know. It's so fun when they use words like, you know, my three-year-old walks around and says, well, actually,
00:03:28
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And my five-year-old intersperses words like, indeed, into her senses. Indeed. Dear mother. Oh, that's adorable. It's a little bit less adorable, though, when it is words that we prefer our children not be using, period. And the little ones have picked up on it, right? And so, like I said, this is not a problem that a lot, lot, lot, lot of families have if they don't have a widespread. But to some extent,
00:03:54
Speaker
There is some of that for just about everyone, especially as your family grows and evolves. Yes, yes. We've noticed a handful of issues that we have had to address in having this wide age range, every age range in our homes. And so we're going to talk to them and share with you guys some tips and some happy mediums and some compromises that we've come up with today, both for letting the older ones have their independence and letting the little ones maintain their innocence.
00:04:23
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Yeah, and you might have already had a conversation like this. Even if you have three kids real close together, what happens when they turn 9, 10, 11 and they want to start telling the little kids in the neighborhood about Santa Claus? You've probably had a conversation similar like, oh, actually we allow little kids to believe what they want or we allow little kids to have this imagination and we don't squash it and we don't become the bearers of bad news as we get older.
Setting Age Boundaries for Media
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But I would say that number one issue that our family deals with is media usage, right? So as you grow and evolve, you become exposed to more mature themes, maybe some disturbing news on the internet. This is a big one for us because as our oldest has grown up, then the other kids have wanted to grow up right along with him, even if they're five or six years younger. And so that's been a little bit tricky.
00:05:18
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I've noticed that as soon as my oldest, who is 17, is allowed to watch a specific movie or show or rating level, then all of a sudden everybody thinks, oh, we can watch PG-13 now. I'm like, oh, but except he's 13 and you're seven. So we have to have this conversation quite often. And it can be particularly frustrating in a situation like mine where all my kids are two years apart.
00:05:40
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So if I say yes to the 11-year-old, then the nine-year-old's right there going, well, I can too. I'm only two years younger. And then the seven-year-old's like, well, what about me? There has to be a hard cutoff, or else the next thing I know, my three-year-old is watching a PG-13 movie, which is not OK with me. So yeah, we'll talk about that.
00:05:59
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Yeah. Yeah. So one solution is what you mentioned a hard age cut off or an experience cut off. So for us to have a personal device in our family, they have to be able to separate from us, which means the driver's license. So they did not need a personal device unless they were having a driver's license and driving away from us. And then of course we wanted them to have one for safety reasons so that they could get ahold of us and we could get ahold of them.
00:06:27
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And so that was just our line that we drew for personal
Consistency in Media Rules
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media. Is you can drive or you can't drive? And like they can't say, oh, well, I'm only two years away from driving. No, you're not driving. Sorry. Yeah. Love it. So that was one that worked for us. So this is a thought I've had recently that it might be worth considering creating a list of what ages can do what.
00:06:55
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especially for other caregivers so i've had this happen quite often where i have a hard and fast rule but when i leave home they convinced the babysitter or dad or a big sibling oh actually mom said i can do that right and it quickly kind of devolves into chaos so.
Teens' Role in Protecting Innocence
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Right now, our cutoffs are pretty distinct, and so there isn't as much problems as there has been in the past. But if you're leaving a babysitter, you might have a list on the fridge that says, oh, kid A, B, and C are allowed to watch anything over PG. Kids under this cannot, or this kid is allowed on the internet without a parent sitting right by him. No one else is. He's the only one. So that's just kind of a good way to communicate with others who might be watching your kids that aren't fully aware of the rules that you have.
00:07:37
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Um, and, uh, I will admit that sometimes my husband and I have been on different pages of this, but I think that's probably a topic for a whole other episode, right? We have a marriage series. We'll stick that one in there somewhere. Yeah. Okay. So, um, something, one little thing that, um, I have done with media usage to respect, um,
00:07:58
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the adultness or the heading toward adultness that my teens or those that are old enough, you know, driving, have a job and a personal device, and then preserving the innocence of the young. One thing I do is I say if
00:08:13
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you are on a screen and one of your siblings can see your screen, then you are responsible for making sure that what is on your screen is safe for them. So I just plop the responsibility right back in their lap. And our kids are very protective of their siblings. And they, like, I'll even, you know, at first when they, you know, first got a device, I'd, you know, there'd be something and I'd see all the little kids gather around and be like,
00:08:38
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I hope whatever is on your screen is appropriate for your younger siblings because they can all see it right now. So if you're interested in specifically outlining what our different families have done as far as screen time usage, go check out that episode too.
00:08:52
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I love that about the screen. Side note, we do require the vast majority of our screens to be out in the open. They're not in bedrooms. They're not enclosed, except my office, because I have to be able to lock myself away, for everyone's protection. But there does come a time when they are allowed to have personal devices. And then what do those rules look like, both to protect their own innocence and also that of the younger kids? One thing that has worked for us is
00:09:20
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like a later at night thing. Like if a kid wants to watch something that's not super appropriate for a younger kid, then he has to wait until nine o'clock or eight 30 or something so that the younger siblings are not up gathered around his computer and wondering what's going on. So all kinds of kinds of options there. Yes. Waters. We have had to navigate navigate ourselves.
Discussing Mature Themes with Teens
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Okay. Let's go on to number two, talking about mature themes with our kids. You guys noticed that on this,
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podcast. If we have an episode that has some mature themes or mature words in it, we always give you an earbud warning. And that's because we know that a lot of you are moms with younger kids listening and you're like,
00:09:58
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getting prepared to discuss these things with your kids. Well, we're right there with you. We sometimes wish we could have our teens put earbuds in and we could talk to them about everything from sex to crime to alternative lifestyles and divorce and all these sticky subjects that maybe we just don't want our little ones introduced to yet, but we don't have earbuds. Our teens don't have earbuds in.
00:10:22
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They usually do. Not with a direct connection to what we want to say to them, right? So we've had to figure out how to talk about mature themes.
00:10:35
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when there are also little ones in the home. Yeah. And I feel like this is a really important part of raising teens. Like when something scary or disturbing or immoral comes across their awareness, it's in the news or pop culture or whatever, I want to have a discussion about that with my child. But without the three-year-old listening in, or actually he probably isn't paying attention, but the seven or the nine-year-old listening in, right?
00:10:58
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So, a couple of solutions that we've come up with are setting aside specific times to talk to our teens about these subjects. And sometimes my husband, sometimes things come to mind and I'm thinking, I really want to talk to my husband about this, but as soon as he gets home, all the kids swarm in. Not a good time, right? So, a couple of times that we do these are sometimes after dinner, but
00:11:17
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the older people are still sitting around the table and the little kids have like scampered off, right? So they're not paying attention or they're outside or whatever. And we kind of have this a little bit more serious conversation. Those are for the things that I don't like to push off much, like it's kind of a little bit urgent. And then at night, right, whether I like it or not, 1030 comes around and my kids want to talk. So I can use those times to say, hey,
00:11:39
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Were you aware of this? What do you think about this? In the news I saw this, let's have a conversation." You can get creative or taking your kids on dates. That was a fun way. Yes. You know what? Those after dinner conversations are some of my most favorite times because when you have a family with all ages, with teens especially, the dinner conversations get so good.
00:12:02
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So good. Um, and then yeah, I found to like teens somehow they want to open up at night and I'm like, I'm here for it. Yeah. It's one, one reason that I've been really motivated to preserve the, the earlier bedtime for my younger kids is so that the older ones can come in and talk.
Encouraging Teens to Protect Innocence
00:12:21
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You know, another thing is, like I said about the media usage, we can recruit our kids help to preserve the innocence of the little ones, you know, remind them how carefree their childhood was and how much they didn't have to worry or be scared or mature too soon.
00:12:42
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And so their younger siblings should have that opportunity as well. So definitely communicating with them about what we're trying to do here. And so then when the conversation starts to turn and there are little ones in the room, I will either say, oh, hey, hang on a second. Let's discuss this later. Or I will ask the little one to leave. Hey, this conversation is going to be boring to you. Why don't you guys go play outside? Yeah. And I like that you're saying that sometimes you do one or the other. Because if we're constantly pushing off the teens in favor of the younger ones,
00:13:10
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That can kind of sow some discontent and some frustration and they start thinking that they're not as important as the little kids. But the little kids are the urgent ones. They're like, Mom.
00:13:22
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So sometimes it is appropriate to say, oh, nope, you go play outside. I'm going to talk to you in 20 minutes. I have to talk to your brother first. And for us, I've noticed just how sweet it really is to get my teens on this side with me of preserving this innocence of the other kid's childhood. It's just really neat to see them take that kind of more mature stance. And I think it does two things. I think it helps them feel a little bit more like adults. Like, oh, I'm a big kid. I am.
00:13:50
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This is part of my job is to help make sure these little kids stay innocent. And then it also gives little kids the benefit of having more, I don't want to say more parents because I'm not asking them to parent, but just more big people out there protecting them, right? Like, oh, oh, oh, actually, we're not going to talk about this. Look, little ears are listening. And so more, more big kids are, more big people are around protecting these little ones as well, which I think is just really sweet.
00:14:14
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Yes. And that does so much for our teens when we treat them like an adult, give them the adult responsibility. So, you know, we present it in such a way, not like, you know, disciplining them for talking about something when their younger siblings are around, but recruiting them to be on our side. Hey, let's do this together. Let's be on a team and protect the kids in a sense as well. You know, a good comparison might be comparing it to their physical safety.
00:14:43
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just as the older sibling would never allow them to run out on the road unsupervised. They can also be put on guard to protect their mental innocence as well.
00:14:55
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and emotional things, you know, like, you know, it's not that the little kids wouldn't understand some of these things that we're discussing, but it's that they would take on so much worry and care about it. I remember the first time that one of my children heard about or understood the concept of what abortion was, and they just cried for weeks and weeks. And they were just too young to have found out. I don't remember what the situation was. I didn't have older and younger ones at that time, but
00:15:22
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Yeah, just like the worry and the care that they would be burdened with too young. And when you present it in an adult manner like that to your older kids and your teens, they're so on board. They want to help you so much with it. Yeah, and I also like the concept of us all working together to keep our home this safe and innocent safe haven, right?
00:15:44
Speaker
They know what it's like to go out into the world and to feel kind of those buffetings of just evil and ickiness and bad influences and bullies and all this harsh stuff. And when they come home, they know what that feels like. And to just acknowledge that, just say, you know how comfortable it feels to come home.
00:16:02
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and let your guard down, we want to keep this place a safe, beautiful haven for our little kids. And this is how we protect ourselves from the outside world. Kind of like our episode on evil-proofing our kids, right? To get our team on our side that they're also helping us do the same. It's pretty cool.
Appropriate Language Use
00:16:20
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Okay, so a third aspect of protecting this little kid in a sense is with mature language. So let me just say that we don't allow cursing in our home, but there are just kind of like rougher terms and words that may be okay for a teen to use.
00:16:38
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or even normal for a teen or adult to use, but I definitely don't want hearing coming out of my three-year-old's mouth. Now, that being said, it happens, hypocrite and all the things, you know? But things like, crap, I don't want my five-year-old saying crap, but my teens say it all the time, or idiot, or these other words that, you know, when my oldest was five, never in a million years, like he'd get soap in his mouth if he ever said those words. But now, so this is kind of like tricky, what battles do you want to pick, right?
00:17:07
Speaker
This reminds me so much of one of my little kids came to me the other day and they said, I suppose this should have been our humor segment, but they came to me and they said, mom, the next older up sibling was swearing, said some bad words. And I said, oh no, I'm sorry that you had to hear that. What was it exactly? And they said, well, I can't say it. It's a bad word.
00:17:31
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I said, well, but I appreciate that. And you're, you know, you're careful being careful with your own tongue. But I really need to know the words that were said so that I can talk to your sibling about it. So you can just whisper them in my ear. Maybe like that will, you know, dull the not saying it. And they said, okay. And they whispered in my ear this expression that's used in the Midwest where we live. And it's not swearing at all. It's dad gum it. Oh, yeah.
00:17:58
Speaker
But that does sound a little harsh. And I was, I was working on not laughing, not giggling. And I did that. And I understood that it was that the next sibling up was using them. I mean, it didn't matter the words that they said, they could have said purple petunia, but it was the anger and the, you know, the force with which they were putting behind younger women. It was a naughty word. Yeah, for sure.
00:18:27
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But it's okay to have limits what you allow from your teen. So then I did talk to my older, the next one up, the one who had said the swear words. And I talked about how you could say how the intent and the force and the feeling behind your words was just as bad as if you said, you know, puppy's breath, puppy's
00:18:50
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puppy's puppy dog breath or something you can say any words but the way that you say them so we then had a nice little chat about how
00:18:58
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having the right feeling behind what we say. Yeah. Yeah. That's an interesting concept. I remember living in different countries and even before I learned the language, knowing exactly what the swear words were because of how they were spoken and the facial expressions and the intent or the intensity, the volume, all those things. So that's so funny.
00:19:23
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Okay, and once again, we just try to get our teens on our side like, oh, can you see how hearing that word out of your friend might not even resonate, might not even cause a reaction to you? Yeah, might not even register. But out of a little kid's mouth, how it sounds so much sadder, right? Because we expect them to be innocent and sweet and kind. And let's just give them the best chance at this innocent childhood.
00:19:47
Speaker
But again, this might be something you have to let go of a little bit due to the nature of just having little kids and big kids at home. We do the best we can.
00:19:55
Speaker
Some more things to think about preserving the innocence of the younger kids is to make time as a family to cater to the younger kids, like reading picture books together, doing kid activities, playing a super easy game. Like there's oftentimes we're having game night and it's a game that's too hard for the kids, but you know, do something silly and easy first. Do a kid puzzle together. All those kinds of things that
00:20:21
Speaker
The little ones are actively, and the big ones are actively involved in interacting as a family, but caring and protecting that innocence together. Yeah. And this is like, I have mixed feelings about this because as an adult who likes to have fun, for sure I would nine times out of 10 rather go see a movie that's interesting to me with my teenagers than to sit around and play Candyland for the fourth thousandth time.
00:20:45
Speaker
But again, as a parent who sees my kids grow up so fast, I just think, oh my gosh, when's the last time we're going to play Candy Land? It could be tomorrow. You know what I mean? And half of you is going, yes, end of Candy Land. Shoots and ladders. That's the one I can't tolerate. Shoots and ladders.
00:21:01
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It's sorry for me. I don't see any point in it. So you have to realize that your teens are going to for sure have less of that mothering instinct to want to do the fun little kid thing. So we really have to encourage them, right? And so it can get some pushback, but I will say that
00:21:23
Speaker
For us personally, we have some of the best memories doing the piddly little kid stuff, right? Things like having a snowball fight, especially special for us because we don't get snow, so it's like on a vacation or something, playing Twister. The other day for a family activity, we played telephone, where you just whisper something in someone's ear and it goes around, and we have enough people that it gets so garbled. It was so funny. The kids were begging to do it, I think we did it 20 times.
00:21:49
Speaker
One more time, one more time. And by that time the teens were down, the adults were down. Like now we're going to bed. But just so fun. Drawing lessons. Like sometimes my teens will give the younger ones drawing lessons or we'll all do a video together like one of those simple ones on YouTube and see who has the best troll drawing or whatever. Playing with Play-Doh. Sometimes I'll come in and have distracted my little ones with Play-Doh and my teenager sat down and is making some snakes for the kids or something.
00:22:12
Speaker
It just kind of preserves the child and all of us to make room for that stuff, right? And when we do that, it keeps us all a little bit more connected. I don't know what it is about it, but it just kind of brings us all together. I love it. It's a great reminder to keep those activities in your life.
00:22:30
Speaker
Yeah, it's, um, we have a whole episode. This is bringing to mind our episode on family friendly activities. We had a request that somebody talk about, um, things that we do that are exciting for a whole family. And so that that's bringing the episode to mind. Definitely go check it out. Cause we threw tons of ideas out in that episode. But one thing that our family did last year was, um, we went on a hike about once a month and that was so fun. And it ended up not being a hike like one month in the summer we went canoeing.
00:23:00
Speaker
And the whole family went canoeing. That was something that the big ones enjoyed and the little ones enjoyed. Um, and, but like hiking is something everybody can do. And the, and the, the big ones end up, you know, backpacking the little ones for part of the trail, but that's, that's fine. That's fun. And it's something that you could do all together. And so anyway, go check out that, that, um, episode definitely.
00:23:24
Speaker
instills a maturity and a selflessness, a service-oriented mindset in your teens. The main difference between teens who have no younger siblings, younger kids, nieces and nephews, et cetera, to interact with and those who don't is selfishness or selflessness. I see this actually
00:23:47
Speaker
a lot in or maybe it's brought to mind how good my older kids are with their younger siblings when my older kids will bring home a friend who doesn't have younger siblings around and they're just kind of like uncomfortable or awkward or they don't like they're really neat people but they just don't know what to do with those little kids because they're not annoyed at all the things the little kids do yeah yeah and the big ones are so good at tolerating it and you know just playing along and
00:24:18
Speaker
throwing the little kids up in the air and just doing stuff together. It's really neat to see when you get some of these issues worked out. It's really, really neat to see the large family dynamic going on.
00:24:29
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I have noticed the same thing and obviously it's just the natural order of things.
Sibling Interactions and Inclusivity
00:24:35
Speaker
I'm sure when my youngest grows up, I mean they'll probably have plenty of nieces and nephews around, but they will also be a little bit more awkward with the younger kids than my oldest kids because they just don't have as much experience. But it's just so neat. If it's sometimes frustrating, you can remind yourself that, hey, I am teaching my kids so many skills for how to deal with someone who's impatient or throwing a tantrum or only wants to play telephone 4,000 times or
00:24:58
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They become wonderful babysitters. They become great caretakers.
00:25:03
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just selfless, right? Granted, my teens are not perfect for sure. They get upset about things. I was just thinking about one of my older teens throwing a huge fit and yelling at the three-year-old because the three-year-old was throwing a fit. I just walked in and I was like, I didn't realize what he was doing. Like I said, none of us are perfect when these little kids push our buttons, but having them on our side is just so magical and teaching them
00:25:28
Speaker
Hey, before you make your own lunch, do you think you can see if anybody else needs lunch? Do you think you can check on them first? Do you think you can play a game with someone to keep them out of mom's hair? It's a beautiful thing.
00:25:38
Speaker
And what I love most about teaching my oldest kids this caretaking is that I know they're going to be amazing parents. Even if my oldest might wait 15 years to have kids, I don't know. Probably a little burned out. I think about all of the skills that I'm giving them today to become amazing parents of their own children and great spouses too because they're going to have so much more patience for their spouses' quirks because they're way less annoying than a three-year-old's.
00:26:04
Speaker
I know, I know. That is so true. When my son was in college, his female classmates would tease him that he was more prepared to be at a birth or
00:26:21
Speaker
Have kids then they were and they were females and they were like, how come is this like you've seen more birds than we have and we're women and we're supposed to be preparing for this life event and they would give him a hard time because he'd you know, been at all of his siblings first and that was that so I love that too just the
00:26:39
Speaker
what a large family does. Okay, so one final thought I have here is if you want to work on this with your older kids, start now, if you just have younger kids.
Assigning Responsibilities to Siblings
00:26:55
Speaker
Because one thing that we have done, we have an episode on sibling rivalry, and I outlined in that what we do to prevent sibling rivalry in our family. And it's not 100% effective, but it is really, really close.
00:27:08
Speaker
Um, my, my kids just love each other and get along. One thing that we do that I wanted to mention here is that we give them responsibility for a younger sibling from the beginning. So when we go to town, we have a partner system. Okay. We're getting out. Um, I obviously only have two eyes and I'm also going to be looking for groceries. So I need you and you to be partners and you and you, and then we go through the store in a partner system where they're responsible for the younger sibling. Cause I obviously would not be able to get one single grocery if I had to watch seven little kids running around. Right.
00:27:39
Speaker
Yeah, so they have that responsibility and then we work a lot on love for each other from the very beginning, even from before the child is born. And I really see this played out in my teens in just a respect for our wishes for the younger kids, but they share that. They have ownership of that as well because they've done part of the, not really the raising of the child, but
00:28:07
Speaker
They have definitely influenced this kid's life and they're not going to mess it up by teaching them to swear or something.
00:28:15
Speaker
Yeah.
Promoting Family Unity
00:28:16
Speaker
To me, it really clinches the idea that we are a family, that it's not a 16-year-old and a five-year-old and a 10-year-old just out there doing their own thing, but that we are a cohesive unit and we look out for each other. And as each of us gets more mature, we watch out for the ones below us and the parents are there to guide everyone. But it's just a beautiful concept when we can get those kids to understand it as well.
00:28:42
Speaker
And then the bonus is that our life is much easier as a parent than we have more kids helping out and then they go out into the world even more prepared. So it's a wonderful thing even though it is a little bit frustrating sometimes. So we hope that these tips helped
Closing Remarks and Feedback
00:28:59
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you guys. Please let us know on Instagram or email us if you have other further questions about this topic or others that you'd like to hear. And we hope you have a great week. I'm Bonnie. I'm Audrey and we're outnumbered.
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Someone's dying. He's just mad. Oh, well, how ironic. I'm hearing the word idiot being screamed. Perfect. Good timing, guys. Come over here and say that. Your kids don't say that. They're too sweet. I can tell. Don't they, though? They don't say it. They just scream it. They just scream it.