Marriage and the Large Family

What is it like being married and raising a large family? Are there pressures on a marriage with several children: Financial? Do husband and wife have any time for each other? Join me and my guest Penne Ard as we discuss marriage with a large family.

Penne Ard is Founder/Facilitator of the worldwide iLearn in Freedom Network, home of the CanDo! CO-OP & Club Callanetics. For more than two decades she has been actively involved in the freeschool movement (also called homeschooling or unschooling), promoting alternative, cooperative, and democratic education. In addition to being an instructor of the Callanetics Exercise Method and a Beachbody Coach, Penne is also certified in Keiser Indoor Cycling and Square Foot Gardening as originated by Mel Bartholomew.

Married for 26 years, Chuck & Penne enjoy traveling together as a family. They have nine children, ages 5-25, all naturally spaced through ecological breastfeeding. In addition, Penne helped co-parent Chuck's oldest son, who was three when they first met and is now happily married with four children of his own. Penne actively promotes attachment parenting as a Rebozo Way/Nurturing Across Cultures REP, and her 2nd oldest son, Mark, who recently passed away at age 20, was the first to be carried "in arms" (that is, in a rebozo baby shawl carrier) as a tot.