ADVICE – 2 years, 5 years or 7 years apart… Is there a more or less advantageous age gap to provide close, complicit siblings without competition? The response of two childhood specialists.
When you want to start a family and have several children, the question can quickly arise: Is there an ideal age gap between siblings? Ideally, siblings should be united and complicit, ideally not to suffer too intensely from parental fatigue, for example, not to disturb the first born with the birth of the second. All of these questions, of course, stem from the desire to do the best, to create the most harmonious family possible, and sometimes from the family structure in which the parents grew up. Some want to reproduce it, others, on the contrary, want to take the opposite approach.
Stephan Valentine, PhD in psychology and early childhood specialist (1), immediately decides: “There is no ideal age difference. In fact, each child has the power to adapt to another. The most important thing is that the desire to welcome another child is shared by both parents.” That being said, the gap…
Source: Le Figaro
