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Brotherly Bonding Despite an Age Gap by Sharon O’Donnell

I remember when I was pregnant with my third son, knowing he would be nine years younger than my Oldest son and six years younger than my middle son, and I worried about the Age Gap. Would they still be close?  Would they still create memories together and bond, despite the oldest would be in high school when the youngest started kindergarten?  When they were growing up, the oldest two looked out for the youngest but also often picked on him.  At one point when Jason, my youngest, was in 4th through 8th grade, his brothers were in a school and college with a different calendar than his schools, and so I sometimes took Jason and one of his friends on brief vacations because my other sons couldn’t go. Since Jason had a late-in-the-year birthday, I decided to hold him back and start kindergarten one year later. This meant that there was a 10-year age gap in school between Jason and my oldest, Bill. There were some chaotic nights of homework at our house as the work ranged from addition facts to Calculus. But as the years have passed, the gap seems to have lessened.

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