With eight kids and another one on the way, Megan Alger can seem more like the CEO of a small company than a typical American mom. In their family’s suburban home in Augusta, Ga., kids are taught to be self-sufficient from a young age.
Megan regularly deputizes her older children to care for the younger ones. “I just gave my 2-year-old to my 8-year-old and said, ‘Go put him in his bed,'” she says around nap time, laughing. “We’ll see if it works.”
The 8-year-old obediently carried his brother to his crib and shut the door.
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