We are trying to have a third child. We currently have an 8 year old girl and a 7 year old boy. We live in a 1350 sq ft 3 bedroom 1.5 bath. It works fine for our family right now, but I'm worried how we'll manage when we have 3 kids. We might be able to get a larger house someday, but not anytime in the next five years or so.
Anyone raise/raising a large family in a small space? Have any advice or reassurance to offer?
We're managing. Our boys share a room, our girl is due in August.
There are 4 of us (soon 5), and 2 dogs (one HUGE) in a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1048sq. ft. home.
We were a family of 7 living in a douplex that was 2 bedrooms...with a converted attic and unfinished/unusable basement. We had a small living room/dining room a small kitchen and ONE bathroom. We also had 1 dog and 2 cats (all indoor pets).
You just find ways to make everything work. :-)
We have a 1350sq ft home....2 bedrooms with 3 children. It's been tough with a teenager, preteen, and a toddler (he's 5 now). They are all boys. My mother was raised with 8 siblings in a 2 bedroom home!
Quoting jadsmummy:
1350 sq ft isn't a small house. My mother grew up in SMALL 2 bedroom house with her 3 siblings. They ALL shared a room. The size of the average American house has increased incredibly over the last 100 years. We are just used to a cultural norm of very large houses. If my Grandmother could raise 4 health happy well adjusted productive adults in a 2 bedroom with no electricity and running water. If the Duggars could have raised 14 children in a house about your size. I am SURE you will be fine in your 1350 sq ft. What you may want to look into is ways to maximize the space you have and reduce the things in the home you don't need.
Do you have a decent-sized backyard? You could get a small shed pretty cheap, and use that for storage. Then you could turn the garage into a playroom.
I know that you are right. It's just easy to forget sometimes.
Quoting jadsmummy:Ahhhh I get it now. Well, its time to put a stop to that right there. Its not fair to yourselves or healthy. Its better to focus on the blessings that you have not what the guy down the street has. There is an old Arab story about a little boy and his mother who are standing in the rubble of their home and its pouring down rain. The only shelter left is a door they have propped up against the rubble to take shelter under. The mother is weeping at what she has lost. The little boy doesn't understand that the mother is in such grief. He turns to his mother and says, "Mother we are so blessed to have this door to keep the rain from us, so many people have nothing to protect them from the rain."
Quoting Jellybean82:
It doesn't help that I live in an area where many people are very wealthy and have large houses. My kids seem to be trying to outdo eachother in the rich friends department. I dropped my son off for a playdate the other day, and his friend's house was two stories, with each floor being larger than my whole house. It really messes with my perspective on things.
Quoting jadsmummy:
1350 sq ft isn't a small house. My mother grew up in SMALL 2 bedroom house with her 3 siblings. They ALL shared a room. The size of the average American house has increased incredibly over the last 100 years. We are just used to a cultural norm of very large houses. If my Grandmother could raise 4 health happy well adjusted productive adults in a 2 bedroom with no electricity and running water. If the Duggars could have raised 14 children in a house about your size. I am SURE you will be fine in your 1350 sq ft. What you may want to look into is ways to maximize the space you have and reduce the things in the home you don't need.
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- Jellybean82
on May. 16, 2012 at 11:38 AM