The difficulty level of children

Last week I quoted Greg LeMond on cycling.

I was thinking about doing great work when I posted it, but it also applies to kids. Having your first child feels hard (fun, but hard), until you have a second one. Then having one seems easy in comparison, but having two seems hard. This continues with child three, which is all I can speak to from personal experience, but I assume it continues onward from there.

It also runs the other direction. If you have two kids, and one kid is away (with a grandparent), it feels like having zero kids.

2025-02-28