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[quote=Anonymous]My kids are 9, 11, and 13.

I feel like we parents of older kids often tend to think "why was I so stressed?" about what are often called little kid problems. And yeah - once those little kid problems are solved, or handled, or you learn to live with them or whatever, they aren't so stressful any more. But that's because they're handled! They're solved! You know what to do when they come up!

I don't know how in the world you'd be less stressed before that's done - before you know what to do with the food refusal, or the temper tantrum, or the clothing sensitivity, or the social skills issue, or whatever it is. If it was just about choosing not to be stressed, then "big kid problems" wouldn't be stressful either (yeah, not even college acceptances and drugs and all the rest) because you'd just chose it.

And if it's about how important the problem is to long term success, isn't learning to eat your vegetables just as important as not getting addicted to alcohol? Both impact your health, after all.

So I tend to give a bombastic side-eye (as my 13 year old loves to say) to those parents of older kids who act like the little kid years are so easy. They really aren't.[/quote]

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