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When my oldest started high school this fall, it was sad and exciting at the same time. My baby! High school!
But I didn't have too much time to be melancholy or fret about the passage of time because I have other kids and opted to save the BIG bucket bawling for when the last of the litter heads off.
Keith and Becki Dilley don't have that luxury, though. Part what made them a household name in the United States, raising sextuplets, means their child hit major milestones like starting high school or college, at the same time. This fall, Adrian, Claire, Quinn, Ian, Brenna, and Julian became high school freshman, leaving their house strangely silent a lot of the time.
"Keith and I find ourselves alone a lot," Becki said. "We come home, it's like, 'Where is everybody?' And I say, 'Well, they're not expected home till 11:30 or so. 'You mean we're like..... by ourselves?'"
I'd really be interested in a book about what life with 6 teenagers the same age is like. I can't imagine the hormone and teenage angst, drama, and stress those parents must deal with on a daily basis, and I think I could learn a lot from the Dilleys.
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ReaderComments (Page 5 of 5)
12-14-2007 @ 1:48PM
SWEET C.... said...DID IT CROSS ANY BODY'S MIND THAT SOME OF THE KIDS MIGHT BE IN SPORTS AND TRAVEL OUT OF TOWN FOR GAMES AND WOULD NOT GET HOME TILL 11:30 ?
I MEAN REALLY, WHO RIDES HOME WITH YOUR PARENTS AFTER A GAME, NOT I... THAT IS SO UN-COOL
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12-14-2007 @ 1:00PM
Merrily said...I don't think it says anywhere that it is a week night.
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12-14-2007 @ 1:09PM
Melissa said...They were home school in Jr. High lol I watch the discovery channel. If I home schooled my kid if it were a safe school I would want them to go to reg high school. While I think home school has benefits I think kids need real world experience to get them ready for college and life in general.
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12-14-2007 @ 1:11PM
joanna said...I can not beleive that you people are so worried about there curfew it's almost as if you wanna call D.H.S.. well while you guys pretend to be such "goody goody's" where are your kids right now? I'm sure raising 6 kids at the same time was no walk in the park and whoever managed it should get a reward for maintaining sanity, and besides they look to be decent kids and they probably can stay out late because they were raised right and they dont do the things 60% of todays kids do.... in other words worry about your own kids not someone elses
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12-14-2007 @ 1:13PM
kathy said...I am wondering.. just what does time have to do with getting in trouble.. One can get into the same kind of trouble at 9 pm that they can at 10pm.. or 6pm, or anytime for that matter. I am not against kids having to be at home on a certain time.. but let's face it.. at any given time something can happen. I believe they should be given a time.. to come home because there are rules that need to be followed, I can only hope that I have taught them the values of being responsible and not give into peer pressure.. and know what is right and wrong, and with those skills that I have instilled upon them.. I pray that they will turn out to be well rounded, ready for adulthood..and be productive in society.
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12-14-2007 @ 1:35PM
Holly said...In reply to #44-The Dilleys used Pergonal. The doctors weren't expecting them to have more than twins, triplets at the most.
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12-14-2007 @ 1:38PM
Holly said...I'm not sure about the curfew time for these kids, but when I was a teenager, I didn't have a curfew. Me and my brother both had keys to the house. I could stay out later if I was with my brother. My parents didn't enforce the curfew. There were 2 stipulations to us staying out late: 1)we had to go to school the next day, and 2)we couldn't wake them up when we got home.
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12-14-2007 @ 1:40PM
Bill BelleCHEAT said...Those doggone Dillys are nothing but media whores. Go away. Destitute White Trash trying to get some cash.
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12-14-2007 @ 1:41PM
Anne Brousell said...My twin daughters are going to be 18 in a week and they have to be home Mon-Thurs at 9:00. 9:30 if they call and week ends at 12
midnight
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12-14-2007 @ 1:50PM
debra said...yeah im getting old to.remember them on tv as babies all hooked.getting so old they'll be hooking me up soon to monitors.lollll,gezzzzzzzzzz
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12-14-2007 @ 2:03PM
debra said...If you hate kids ,all i have to say is you must have one misrable life.My 2 daughters have my life so much better and bareable after a hard time with divorce and cancer.I thank god for them eveyday other wise i would have went insane...Have a Merry Christmas all.
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12-14-2007 @ 2:11PM
Diane said...My son is 26 and he comes home by Midnight. I don't want to stay up any later but I can't sleep until he is home. He once ubjected to 12 and I told him "then go leave on your own - my house = my rules."
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12-14-2007 @ 2:15PM
brenda said...these parents are sad because they are home alone for the first time in like forever and all people care about is the time they come home people get a life this world is to full of critics and not enough offers of encouragement and or helpful ideas just a way to preach what you think others should do
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12-14-2007 @ 2:56PM
Johnny said...in reply to James comment....
There is nothing wrong with going to the Dr. to get help with having kids, God gave us these large brains to use, it is more of an insult to God not to use them. One way we can use them is to develope ways to help with infertility and the fact that she had six kids, it was a test for them and God knew that they could handle having six kids. The fact that they used science to have kids does not mean that it was not part of Gods plan, If it was not part of Gods plan, it would not have worked.
james said...
if they really had faith in gods plan they would not have used drugs to have children they would have accepted the fact that they were not suppost to have children. only thru the meddling of man could a woman have a litter of childern. god did not design us to have that ability.
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12-14-2007 @ 4:29PM
Susan said...I thought it was 11:30 am. Anyhow, I sure hope these kids have met other kids and have lots of friends other than their siblings. Those first 6 years had to have been chaotic for those parents. I am glad to see these kids grown up and hope they were raised to be grateful for all their parents did for them,. You know the old saying: "A mother can take care of 6 children, but 6 children cannot take care of one mother". I hope this will not be the case with these kids.
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