How Close Should Siblings Be?

Posted on 01 19, 2007 under Master Debaters by wahoodad | Comments

sumo_kid_fightSo, you’ve had one kid and you want to give
your son or daughter a younger brother to whale on or a little sister to tease
(Hey, don’t look at me.  I didn’t make
the rules—that’s just what older siblings do.).   The OB has
deemed your wife’s body ready to make babies once again, but this time around
there’s the wild card of kid number one factored into the upcoming trials and
tribulations of pregnancy and a newborn.  
Granted, the choice of how soon your wife gets pregnant may not be up to
you; but, in a perfect world, how soon after the first do you want to have a
second?  Spit them out one after another,
or provide some buffer years between them?

There are pros and cons to both sides of the argument, so let’s hear ‘em. Which brings us to this week's questions:



Are you better off having
the second as soon as possible after the first; or should you space them out a
little?  If you come down on the side of
putting years between Kid 1 and Kid 2, how long should you wait?

{mosnooad} This is the latest installment in our Master Debaters Question of the Week
Series. There are some topics that seem to fall into the consensus category:
drunk driving is bad, guns kill people, Transformers are better than GoBots (to everyone alive save Redhawk!).
But that only covers less than 1% of the decisions you and your spouse make
towards the upbringing of your kids. The majority of issues tend to fall more
in the gray area.
Here at Noodad.com, we take pride in delivering important advice for dads. But
we realize that some of our advice is subjective. The collected readership
surely has things to add and unique perspectives to contribute.


So where do you weigh in?

 

 

 

 

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