ESOL Magazine March 2014 March, 2014 | Page 7

 In big families children become more independent earlier with dressing, feeding, cleaning etc which makes a good start for their life in future.    As parents take care of children’s needs but cannot satisfy their whims (through lack of money and time), children learn the difference between wants and needs. They    better understand the value of things. They learn to wait for what they want, or to work and earn it for themselves.    Every next child is easier because you have some experience, and an older child can help you to do some chores at home or with the youngest brother or sister which also makes them more responsible and helpful and they can gain a feeling of their own importance.    In a large family children are surrounded by laughter. By and large, even with its ups and downs, the home of a large family is a happy place, a place of healthy fun. Good cheer, it seems, is livelier, more heartfelt, when shared with a crowd but sorrow, seems less painful. Most children from a large family all their lives remember the fun they had together, the sheer delight of being alive surrounded by love. In spite of all the difficulties and tensions, they only remember the nice and pleasant moments that they spent in a big and happy family.  I can write more and more advantages of having a big family, but anyway it is a personal decision to have one, two or more children or even none. I am happy that God has given me a chance to be the mum of nearly four children. I would like and I really try to make my children’s lives happy and cheerful, to teach them to be responsible, helpful and independent. Sure I am not the best mum in a world but I do everything in my power to be better.