Anonymous wrote:Ugh. Never got to enjoy the "little child little problem" era because my DC has so many behavioral issues stemming from ADHD and who knows what else (we've run the gamut of diagnoses). It's been a struggle from the get-go and I am not looking forward to it getting any worse during the teen years...

At least you will enter the teen years with some solid skills.

Ugh. Never got to enjoy the "little child little problem" era because my DC has so many behavioral issues stemming from ADHD and who knows what else (we've run the gamut of diagnoses). It's been a struggle from the get-go and I am not looking forward to it getting any worse during the teen years...

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Anonymous wrote:Remember when we thought the terrible twos were hard....

You thought the terrible twos were hard because they were hard.

Physically demanding, and I never got enough sleep, but it wasn't because I was up half the night worrying. Not once during the twos did I wonder if some ativan might make me a better mother.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember when we thought the terrible twos were hard....

You thought the terrible twos were hard because they were hard.

Agree - but a different hard.

Anonymous wrote:Remember when we thought the terrible twos were hard....

You thought the terrible twos were hard because they were hard.

My wife is convinced our DD needs mood stabilizing meds. Because she can be so out of control at times, and so down...

The days are long, but the years are short.....

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So when does this start?
My 9 year old still lets me hold his hand when we walk to school, but can have totally biting responses when grumpy.
Do I have a few more years?

My boys started at age 12. It's a pendulum swinging around. Hate-Love-Hate-Hate-Love

With their younger sister the moods were: Hate-Annoy-Hate-Annoy-Tolerate

Terrible teen years or not so terrible teens years can lead to wrong decision-making in college years. What is said to be the campus culture at UVA is not so very different from colleges anywhere. There has just been more cases of very wrong decision-making on both sides of the coin. No teen should be sent off to college without a clear idea that drinking, drugs and the peer "acting" pressure of the party scene in any setting - fraternity or not - can lead to a bad snap decision with unexpected consequences. Nobody - male or female - should go off alone and drunk with anyone they have just met....... "Friends" in a social college setting are mercurial and can't be judged in terms of acting as how a group of close high school seniors might have looked out for one another. It is important to keep the conversation going in the college years, even if you are not there to pick them up any longer at a phone call's notice.

God, you all are really making me dread the next few years.

Remember when we thought the terrible twos were hard....

So when does this start?
My 9 year old still lets me hold his hand when we walk to school, but can have totally biting responses when grumpy.
Do I have a few more years?

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Anonymous wrote:I also miss that there is just not as much time for carefree fun time. They get home from school/activities and have to shut themselves in their rooms with piles of homework.

You sure they're doing HW? If they have a laptop or smart phone in there with them... I fear what else they could be doing.

I am sure they are wasting sometime online, but yes they have way too much homework.

I walked my three to school today - the oldest disappeared to their classrooms without a goodbye but my youngest was walking alongside holding my hand. It just hit me that this will probably be the least year that she will still do that. Sniff.

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Anonymous wrote:I know. You just get stinky armpits and angry faces and 'f*ck you, mom' -seriously? and I hate you and can you drop me off a block before we get there because I can't be seen with you and 'YES I'M WEARING THIS' and slammed doors. ~sob~

Yeah, aside from the occasional stink, the rest shouldn't be the norm.

…said the mother of toddlers.

I have 2 in college and also thought the teen years were stressful.