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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's a pain in the butt.  Nobody enjoys having to constantly manage another person's every activity, even without battles and backtalk and stalling.  Are you a parent?  Your reference to your niece makes me think you aren't.

Look, you're not wrong.  My smart, stubborn, "willful" girl is going to be an amazing, tough, assertive 30 year old woman.  But as a kid who needs to brush her teeth and won't, she can be exhausting.[/quote]

I am a parent. My daughter is nine. I referenced my niece because that is where I have heard people using the term willful to describe her. But the behavior they are describing seems like very normal kid behavior. My daughter definitely resisted stuff like bedtime or meals at that age, but it never occurred to me to describe her as difficult. That's just how toddlers are.

I agree parenting is exhausting. But often these comments are coming from people who aren't the parents (my in-laws). And also, it's not the kid's fault it's exhausting. Of course it's hard work to raise a human being. What did people expect?[/quote]

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