If you grew up in a family of 3 or 4 please give your opinion :)

Following because same! I’m the only kid, husband is one of two. Pregnant with our third and debating what’s better, 3 or 4

I have 3 siblings and I was still the middle child even with four of us. Pretty chaotic childhood cuz of stuff outside of our control but we are friends now and have a family group chat that we send memes in.

I didn’t grow up w either but I always say the world wasn’t meant for odd numbers! I love amusement parks and you’ll have an odd man out always when riding rides🤷‍♀️

I grew up one of 4. Loved it!!! Now we have our sibling group text, we text every day. Wrong about the middle child syndrome though, it DEFINITELY still exists with 4! The middle 2 kids are still middle children! I'm the 3rd girl and then we have our little brother. There are 2 to 3 years in between each of us. My second oldest sister insists she's the only real middle child bc shes the middle girl. Which is total bs and downplays my experience. Despite that, so happy to have had them all then and now.

I grew up with 2 older brothers. EXTREMELY OLDER might i add. One is 10 years older than me and the other is 7 years older than me. As the only girl and the youngest i loved it because i was super spoiled but i hated that i wasn’t close to either of my siblings because of our age gaps. I definitely think if there’s more than like a 4 year gap 😬😬. Thats why i vowed to have all my kids close together 🤣

I am the youngest of 3. My sister is the oldest at 39, brother is 36, and I'm 33. We were raised by a single mom, so my sister helped out a lot.

We didn't exactly get along a lot of the times, but when my sister got pregnant at 16, we all got really close. After I graduated high school, I wanted to move in with my sister, despite the age difference we were very close. I helped with her kids, and they are like my own. My brother and I don't talk much but its nothing bad. When we are all together we get along well. There for each other when we need.

I’m the second oldest of 6 kids and it was great growing up! We kind of paired up naturally so everybody had a play buddy or someone to share hobbies with. We all have a group text now too and it’s fun. I hope I can give my 2 boys at least another!

I one of three.
And while I had a pretty good childhood, we were an off number so someone was almost always left out. It’s so hard to find activities to do for 3. It’s so much more common for either a group of 2 or 4. Especially when we would go to amusement parks, neither of our parents liked riding the rides. So someone always had to sit out or sit by themselves.

I feel like it depends how close in age they all are/will be. I grew up with my twin and older sister and it was definitely chaotic at times. It also is difficult if you go to amusement parks and everyone wants to ride the rides because then someone will have to sit by themselves.

I grew up going back and forth between mom and dad, but I had 3 siblings at each house, would have been 4 each if other factors weren't in play. Anyway on my mom's side I am the oldest(19), with a younger sister (now 12) and 2 brothers (10 and 14). I did lose one brother when he was a few months old and my mother was hesitant to have more children after that, hence the semi larger age gap between me versus my other siblings. My mother struggled to take care of all 4 of us, so I took on a lot of work in terms of the household and childcare. With my father's side, I was the older middle child with an older sister (turned 21 today), a younger step sister (18 at 6 months younger than me), and a younger brother (13) who recently came out as trans ftm.

Being a middle of 4 and so close in age to her, my step sister and I were often gifted the same things in "our colors" I got pink versions she got purple, and we hated it because it seemed ingenuine and not really personalized to us. We also fought A LOT as kids (an example is one time I snapped her Barbies head off for not sharing and she literally THREW me into a bookcase), but as we got older and she realized how badly her mother treated me we got really close and her room was my safe haven when I was there. If I'm being completely honest I'm not close with either of my other siblings there but she's like my best friend now and is always trying to spoil me and my daughter since she knows we're struggling a bit financially. I will also add that with there being such a big age gap between the rest of us and my brother none of us were as close with him as we were each other, and I'll admit we sometimes thought of him as a nuisance because he was always in our business.

Both my husband and I are the eldest of 3 siblings of the same gender. We both experienced our middle sibling having MCS but it isn’t as drastic as people think especially if your family is close. It typically just a difference in favourite sport or tv shows.