Well, once you have three you can't really compare how it may have been if there were only two, lol. Many things would be different and you have no way to really know if it would have been easier, make sense? That said I do find it challenging homeschooling with three kids, but I may have found it just as challenging or even more so to homeschool with just the two. My kids are 3, 9, and 11. The 3 yr old gives us joy and laughter, providing us with spontaneous silly questions and disruptions. She helps break up the day naturally with her needs. She can also make it harder because she often wants to be part of what we're doing which isn't always easy to accomplish and she often wants milk or attention when I'd really like to not be interrupted in the middle of a school session. Every year before this year I've enjoyed homeschooling a lot. This year not so much. It has been a struggle for me. This has been pretty much solely due to a shift in my big kids attitudes. They're more negative, mouthy, etc. Not all the time, but often enough to make it not enjoyable overall. I've spent a lot of time working with them on their attitudes (too much) and that is draining on me. I really don't know for sure what is causing it, but I'm trying to solve the problem from many angles. Anyway, who's to say if this would have been more or less challenging without the 3rd child, yk? My opinion is its good to think about these things and talk about them and work through scenarios in our head, but I wouldn't base my decision on homeschooling, or even let it influence my decision to have another child at all. If you have a third and want to homeschool you will make it work! :) So many things can change, including homeschool status, our futures are unpredictable.
