April 29, 2025

Why Big Families Are Built-In Entertainment – Life with the Hansons

Why Big Families Are Built-In Entertainment – Life with the Hansons

n this hilarious and heartwarming episode of We Are the Hansons, we dive into the wild, wonderful world of big family life! From impromptu talent shows in the living room to epic sibling debates, chaos becomes comedy when your family is your entertainment. Join us as we share real-life stories, laugh-out-loud moments, and the hidden perks of raising (and surviving) a large household. It's nonstop action, and no one's ever bored!

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Hey guys, welcome back to We Are the hands In's.

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It's just me today, and I am so excited to

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dive into something that I think every big family can

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relate to. Why big families are the ultimate entertainment package. Seriously,

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who needs Netflix when you have thirteen kids running around

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your house? You know, when people hear how many kids

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we have, they always say something like, wow, your house

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must be crazy, and they're right, but it's also awesome.

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Our kids always have someone to hang out with, someone

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to build pillowfords with, play backyard football with, or, let's

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be honest, someone to argue over who gets the last cookie.

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It's like twenty four to seven social club, and the

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membership fee is just surviving sibling negotiations. I can tell

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you there is never an I mean never a boring

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day here. Someone is always telling a dramatic story, someone

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is putting on an imprompt talent show in the living room,

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and someone is trying to convince the younger kids to

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eat something weird because it's a science experiment. And if

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things get too quiet, that's way worse. It means someone

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is plotting, Like the time we found the younger boys

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trying to build a rocket ship out of laundry baskets

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and duct tape. They honestly believed they make it to

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the moon. I mean, I admire the ambition. Game nights

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in our house are next level. We cannot, I repeat,

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cannot just play a quiet rondavuno. No, we have alliances

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being formed, accusations of cheating, people pretending they forgot the rules,

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and someone always ends up under the table crying because

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they lost. Honestly, it's better than reality TV. We could

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literally have our own show, Survivor family addition, but honestly,

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as wild as it gets, it's also full of so

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much love. A big family you always have someone who

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is proud of you, someone who's cheering you on, someone

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who's willing to fight anyone who looks at two sideways.

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Mostly the boys doing that to the girls. Sure, they

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also roast you for your bad haircut, Gavin and Tristan

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or Keenan and Gavin, or Gavin and Colin, but they'll

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defend you to the end of the earth. There's always

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something happening with a big family. No days are ever

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the same birthdays, school plays, sports games, random kitchen dance offs,

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even normal activities like dinner feel like I'm ani event

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our house. Every child has a unique personality. Some are dramatic,

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some are pranksters, some are philosophers. It's a full time

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show just watching their interactions. Funny misunderstandings and different perspectives

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make for constant laughter, alliances and rivalries, makeups, team ups.

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It's like living inside a wholesome reality show. Watching how

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different kids solve problems, how they argue or plant surprises

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is endlessly entertaining. Big families create their own language and

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humor that outsiders just can't keep up with. Happens every day.

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The volume of inside jokes is massive. In our house.

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It's like a private comedy club. Twenty four to seven.

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Someone is always putting on a performance. Most of the time.

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It's Morgan because she sings all the time, Maddie dancing.

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Her and Morgan are big dancers. Torren is a big dancer.

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Talent shows, fake newscasts, magic tricks, pretend podcasts, made up songs.

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Siblings naturally entertain each other and everyone else because they

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grow up performing for an audience. Games like charades, hide

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and seek, or even board games are way more intense

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and hilarious. With lots of players. You don't have to

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invite friends over. The squad is already here, ready to go.

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Things go missing, weird projects get started, Strange things happen.

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The investigation is half the fun. It's like living in

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a detective novel, sometimes with interrogations and courty heer earrings.

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When something small feels like the end of the world

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for a little one, the dramatic reactions and the way

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the others respond can be comedy gold, especially when retold later.

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Watching the older kids guide the younger ones with mixed

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success is funny and heartwarming. Parenting moments, like having a

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seven year old try to parent the other ones can

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be pure entertainment. In a big family, even quiet days

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are buzzing with life, especially when all the kids are home.

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You might not get much peace and quiet, but you'll

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never run out of smiles, jokes, or stories to tell.

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Decorating the house becomes a circus act. Around holidays, we

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call it holiday chaos is pure comedy. Christmas morning looks

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like a tornado hit a toy store. Someone always eats

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part of the pie before dinner, and the family plays

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detective to find the culprit. Whether it's Halloween, a school play,

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or just dress up day, the mix and match chaos

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turns into a fashion show gone wild. That's a daily here.

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There's always that one kid who wears their costume for

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a full week straight. In fact, we don't just have

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one kid that does it, we have two kids that

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do it. Torn and Anna kids try starting lemonade stands.

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My Torn and Anna and Maddie have all tried to

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start a lemonade stand talent shows with tickets. My three

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younger ones do it made up stores or restaurants at

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home with hilarious seriousness. Almost every day, someone is always

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trying to sell something to their siblings. Torren had made

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up pictures. She drew all these pretty pictures and pictures

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of leelo and stitch and all different kinds of things.

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And she went and was trying to sell her siblings them.

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And she ended up going to our neighbors and selling

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two of her pictures she drew. Someone is always trying

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to get their siblings to do their chores for money.

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In fact, I hear this a lot. I'll do your

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chores for fifty cents or a piece of gum. Every

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meal is a mix of jokes, arguments, food negotiations, and

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retellings of the day's funniest moments. Someone always tells a

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story so outrageous that the whole table loses it laughing

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or spitting out their food happens all the time. You'll

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be surprised to find out your eight year old taught

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your seven year old a dance routine, or someone learned

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a weird skill like beatboxing or yodling. Living room shows

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in our house turn into YouTube worthy moments, all right.

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The fight over who gets the front seat happens all

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the time. My kids. Literally, one will go and jump

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in the front seat of the car, and the other

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one runs out there and they wanted the front seat,

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and they will open the door and drag that one out,

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and they just both try and dive into the front

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seat at the same time. A kran incident becomes a

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courtroom style debate, complete with witnesses and appeals. Sharing rooms

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means late night giggles, whispered stories, and mysterious triumphs from

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the next room. Flashlight conversations turn into debates or jokes

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about farting. A simple lego set becomes a group build

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with rolls, jobs, and eventually a dramatic collapse or siblings sabotage.

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One kid plays by the rules, another rewrites them, and

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the rest are just there to watch it all explode.

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Every birthday is an event, even if it's just at home,

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because there's a full cast of characters to celebrate. The

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surprise song, the cake chaos, which the cake chaos sometimes

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does get way out of hand at our house. The

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birthday spankings. My kids all take turns. Usually the older

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boys will hold whoever's birthday it is down and the

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other kids get to spank them and give them their

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birthday spankings. The gifts always full of laughs. Turning chores

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into games, contests or duets makes even cleaning the kitchen

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a mini sitcom. Someone always finds a loophole in the

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system that you didn't see coming. It's a rolling talent

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show in the car, argument arena, karaoke bar, and a

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snack bar all at once in our car. Someone always forgets,

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something never fails, someone always needs to go to the bathroom,

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and someone always sings way too loud. Clothing comes with

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history because we are into hand me downs. The younger

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kids give full fashion critiques like they're on a reality

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show Runway. Who took mom's phone, where's Dad's wallet? Why

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is there only one shoe by the door? The search

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party becomes an adventure, and nine times out of ten,

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one of the little kids have misplaced it, through it

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in the closet, shoved it under a bed. Constant kids

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retelling their favorite family stories is one of our fun

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things to do, even if you've heard them twenty times,

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with new dramatic flare every time. The way stories evolve

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over the years turns them into family legends. Every kid

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promises in our house to take care of the pets

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until they don't. You end up with three people feeding

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the dog and zero cleaning up after it. In a

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big family, imaginary friends sometimes come with backstories and schedules,

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and occasionally even get blamed for messes. Siblings start interacting

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with each other's imaginary friends like it's a shared universe.

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Blanket forwards take over the entire living room. Somebody always

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falls asleep in a weird say spot, whether it be

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under a table, in the laundry basket, on the hallway floor,

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it could be anywhere people stare count kids ask are

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they all yours? And your family's funny comebacks are part

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of the show. At least one child does or says

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something that gets those looks from strangers. So yeah, life

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in a big family is a circus sometimes, but it's

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the best kind of circus. It's loud, messy, hilarious and

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so full of heart. Thanks for hanging out with me

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today and letting me share a little peek into our

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everyday crazy. If you enjoyed today's episode, don't forget to

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Hansen's Show at gmail dot com and I'll catch you

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all next time. We Are the Hansens