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There are things that become much easier when you have three children.
Rejections, for example: Sorry, the kids, yes, you know.
No question why, something will be fine with one of the three - sick, children's birthday party, ukulele foreplay.
Oliver or was it Frederik or this new little one, oh, you quickly lose track of things.
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Jens Radü
, 40, has three children and in wise moments asks himself who is raising whom here - and if so, why not?
Mostly you even receive pitying looks, or at least understanding is reflected in the face of the other person, often combined with helpful tips: What a vacuum cleaner robot does not save on family time.
Or: Have you ever had purchases delivered?
Personally, I tend to play with the idea of completely concreting the garden.
Bad for the bees, good for my Saturday, but only by the way.
A colleague - childless, so far - asked me the other day with the genuinely interested look of an ornithologist in the jungle: "Don't you walk on your gums with three children?"
Well
Purely anatomically, of course, nonsense.
But in some situations, I have to admit, the molars are touched.
When I'm half-naked in the changing room of a clothes store.
But one after anonther.
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