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[quote=Anonymous]Wondering when it got easier for those of you with high-energy, fast, loud, and extroverted kids who can't seem to play alone to save their lives. I love my kiddos (4.5 and almost 2) but in comparison to our other friends who have children of the same age range (I'm talking 3-4 other families here), they keep telling us we have "hard mode" kids and it feels like that now that we've been stuck at home a year.  Other friends' kiddos play by themselves, are quieter (not completely quiet, just in comparison to my outside-volume 24/7 kids), are still napping, etc. I've met one other kid like my eldest in terms of energy and all-over-the-place personality (huge range of emotions and constantly changing interests) and it's his best friend from pre-k. His mom and I commiserate a lot.

But for real - when do they start to calm down a little if you have high energy kids? I'm an Extrovert with a capital E and I'M exhausted with the kids on weekends, but my poor introvert husband is really really suffering on occasion. The teachers at pre-k have noted he's very academically advanced, but emotionally he's behind his peers (he's the youngest in his class, so not like super behind to be worried), and they say this plays into the issue of bored turning into loud, hyperactive randomness. His little brother is showing the same signs of smart for his age, so we can expect to go through this a second time as well. There's nothing we can really do but wait it out as they develops and grow, but how long?

I'm well aware this is not a simple answer, I'm polling a crowd in hope of some... well, hope.[/quote]

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