What is your ideal age gap for children?

I have two children and they are only 14 months apart and I love it. It seems so much easier this way.

I think that it just depends on the parents. My children are two years apart and I'm glad they are because they can pretty much grow up together and do things together for around the same age group. It does make it easier at times, but boy was it hard changing diapers when they are that close in age.

2 years seems to be a good age. I'm 2 years younger than my sister, and so we've been able to share clothes and help each other out a lot. We've even become "friends" who like to do similar things. She's 21 and I'll be 19 in July. I guess my parents did SOMETHING right. My younger sister, however, is 12 years younger than me. (She just turned 7), which is quite the age gap if you ask me. This is also OK, though, because at least now she has an older role-model.

The ideal age gap for children is going to vary for every family. For us, having our 5 closer together in age has been quite beneficial. At the time of writing this, we have a 6 year old, 5 year old, 3 year old, 2 year old and almost 1 year old.

Baby clothes have been kept handy and handed down (luckily they are all girls, or i would have had lots of shopping to do! LOL). All the nessecities have been used over and over again without collecting dust between each use. The activities for each have been easily kept to age nutral ones and it certainly makes it easier with them having to share bedrooms (for now).

There is 8 years between me and my younger sister and only 2 between her and my youngest sister. My mum found it easier to have them so close in age, as there was very little jealousy on their part (apparently, I didn't like sharing my mum!).