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If this is what is meant by 3 year rule, then in my opinion, this is utter nonsense. Having the 3 youngins play and bond together at a similar age is why we del
by laythea 8y ago
If this is what is meant by 3 year rule, then in my opinion, this is utter nonsense. Having the 3 youngins play and bond together at a similar age is why we deliberately had them as close as possible. Its great to see the bonds develop.
- cgriswald 8y agoIt’s not nonsense. It’s optimizing on a different metric than the metric you chose. Do you have some evidence that being one or two years apart bonds siblings better than being three+ years apart? My sister and I are three years apart and we definitely always had a strong bond. I can’t imagine a year or two would have made a difference. Our other siblings are as far as decades apart from us and we are less close (still close though), but we also didn’t grow up together - my sister and I had already flown the coop. I’d guess there are some limits in between there, but it’s just a guess.
- laythea 8y agoOff course, it is not the case that a 3yr+ gap means no bonding, but I think each year gap makes a massive difference when they are young.