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The simplicity of my day to day.

This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
July 10, 2025 at 4:53am
July 10, 2025 at 4:53am
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Prompt: A Pew Research study reported that extended family households are the most common type of households worldwide, with 38% of people living with extended family. Nearly half of people in the Asia-Pacific area live with extended family, while only 11% of North Americans do.
How do you feel about living with your extended family members yay or any? Are there advantages in doing so? And what potential disadvantages?

There are many pros and cons to living with extended family. I have experienced both.
My husband and I have had all three of our adult children returning to the fold, some with children of their own. Being back to being a couple after children have left is both exciting or boring or a little of both. When you’re in the midst of child raising, the thing you most look forward to is when they’ve grown up and gone. But, as I have advised many a doting parent who is sad when their first child leaves home, is to not worry, and to enjoy the respite because they will return. And they do, over and over again.
Eventually though, you’re on your own, they’ve left.

But years on and you might find you’re the one who needs a hand. To manage the garden, or to do something which requires climbing a ladder, or even to clean the house. It’s at that juncture when living with family starts to look inviting.

I think the qualifier here is that the house should be large enough, and for you to be old enough to enjoy the perks of multi generational living. But without being on top of one another.
Being close to grandchildren can also be tiring and yet they’re going to grow up knowing their grandparents, which is not always the case these days.

So before you leap at the chance of living together, everyone needs to be aware of the pitfalls, but at least give it a try.


Frog in a Hanging Basket



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