This is The Homemaking Foundations podcast with Jamie Balmay, episode number 147.

Welcome to the Homemaking Foundation's podcast, where we give you the tools,

inspiration, and encouragement you need to craft a gospel-centered home.

And now your host from youngwifesguide.com, Jamie Belmay.

Hey, ladies, welcome back to the podcast.

Today is a super fun topic because it is something that I have absolutely zero experience with.

I have the very opposite family than what we're going to be talking about today.

And so I have brought two other fabulous ladies onto the podcast to share their wisdom.

And this is a question that I get asked from time to time, but not too often because people are aware that this is opposite of me.

But it's definitely something that needs to be addressed because while I had five kids in four years and my kids are all close

together, that presents itself with its own unique troubles. But having very large age gaps

and age spans of your kids presents different unique problems and learning how to parent well and take care of a home and try to meet the needs

of a family like that can be difficult. And I have two women in particular that I adore and I love

their advice from. And so I got this question and I knew exactly who I was going to ask. And they both

sent me fabulous responses. Okay. So I've got a question from Catherine and she is struggling with

the large age gaps. And how do you do that? So let's go ahead real fast and listen to the question

from Catherine.

Hi, Jamie. My name's Catherine and I'd really like some advice and guidance on parenting

when you've got a wide range of ages with your children. So I've got a 19 year old stepdaughter, a 17 year old son,

a 13 year old daughter, 5 year old daughter, a 3 year old daughter and a 7 month old daughter.

And it can be really challenging to meet the needs of both my really young children and my

older teenagers because they want such different

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