Hinesh Chauhan reflects on parenting multiple children, noting both challenges (feeling outnumbered, communication gaps) and benefits (siblings supporting and advocating for each other). He draws a parallel between siblings forming a cohesive team and group cohesion developed in military-style training environments, and briefly notes the dynamics of raising a daughter and a son.
As a parent, being outnumbered sucks sometimes, but at the same time, it's. It's being object objective and empathetic to, to what your kids are going through or what's happening. And when you've got multiple kids, they can relate and, and support each other and tell you, you know, that's not really fair, or can we do this and gang up on you to get their way? But it is all about them in some way, right? In some way. Not. Not 100%. But having. Having kids be able to raise issues or challenges with you in, in your parenting, and that's something that my kids do, and at times they may not be able to communicate it at all. And that leads to. To other challenges which, which I'll share later. But what I really appreciate and I find is really important is that they band together. And something that would happen in the army is that on courses, when you're in a training environment, you get so much pressure to essentially get people to come together to develop that collective, to be stronger, better, and unified. And I see that, and I've seen it with my kids as they've grown up in different things we've done together or different pressures I put on them and different responsibilities about how they come together to get it done. And they really are a team. And seeing that bond develop is really, really neat. And having a girl and a boy is further interesting, which I'll talk about at another point as well, but it's all really cool.
