https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 03:27:49 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1630210 Mon, 12 May 2014 21:29:18 +0000 winniebee 1630210@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: hahahhahaha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1628103 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:51:41 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1628103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: when Chloe whines (which is like, all the tiiiime), I say "I'm so sorry, Chloe, it's hard to understand you when you whine. Let's get our wiggles out &amp; try again!" then we do the wiggle dance. </p> <p>Thought this past weekend she said, "I WANT MY WIGGLES IN! I LIKE BEING CRANKYYYYY!" so I guess it backfires. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1628097 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:47:59 +0000 hellocupcake 1628097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This thread is scaring me a little. At 16 months she's already so opinionated and stubborn, I can't imagine her in another 16 months being worse...uhoh :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1628088 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:44:15 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1628088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>ps - 4 has been much, much better than 3! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1628077 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:35:49 +0000 Mrs. Yoyo 1628077@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are just approaching 3 and the boundary-testing and willful disobedience has started, argh. 2 wasn't at all bad, really. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1628071 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:32:16 +0000 sorrycharlie 1628071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@locavore_mama: yup, definitely! agree with you that every kid is different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1628068 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:31:52 +0000 sorrycharlie 1628068@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>in my experience, 3 and 4 were really tough. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1627961 Mon, 12 May 2014 02:06:33 +0000 banana 1627961@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2s were harder! 3s was a breeze. 4s are a little harder than 3 but definitely not as hard as 2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603326 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:46:30 +0000 regberadaisy 1603326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it depends on the child. :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603322 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:45:44 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 1603322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Three was so much harder for us than two. I have a two and four year old now and life is good. Three is wild! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603286 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:29:08 +0000 Mrs. Train 1603286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would pick three but it might have to do with my personality. In the 2's it always seemed like they just couldn't communicate (telling me something and listening). I could deal with those types of fits much better than the willful testing and disobedience. As they get older they know exactly what they are doing and it drives me absolutely nuts! The tantrums were bigger and more explosive but it wasn't as often. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603269 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:22:32 +0000 kakimochi 1603269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3 is tougher in the sense that my LO seems to be testing/challenging me so much more, plus all that whining. BUT I'll take the whining over the tantrums, which she has mainly seemed to have grown out of, and if she does have 1 now, I can snap her out of it way easier now than at 2. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603089 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:29:07 +0000 mrs. bird 1603089@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3. i love 2! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603079 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:27:08 +0000 Maysprout 1603079@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO turns 3 next month and I feel like she's getting easier. Shes so independent, which makes life easier and she still has fits but is much more self aware than she used to be so is easier to reason with or understanding after the fit has passed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1603011 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:13:07 +0000 lamariniere 1603011@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 3 and I feel like he gets easier and easier as time goes on. But who knows, it could all change anytime! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1602220 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:27:07 +0000 chopsuey 1602220@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>2 wasnt bad. 3 is good so far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1602181 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:15:50 +0000 Mrs. High Heels 1602181@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For us the 2's felt much harder than the 3's! All that whining about killed me.</p> <p>We'll see with #2 though... every kid is so different. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1602107 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:54:59 +0000 MamaG 1602107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not sure! We are rounding the corner to 3 and the past year has just been progressively challenging. I fully expect 3 to be hard if for no other reason than she will have a new sibling. I'm scared and expect to bury my head in the sand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601841 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:45:29 +0000 cascademom 1601841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: Toddlerease and the Fast Food Rule has made communicating with LO so much easier at almost 2. Everything is still pretty much a question, but he feels that he's understood better than before it. Harvey Karp's saved our sanity a bit throughout early toddler hood.</p> <p>ETA: this could also go in the other toddler thread. Not fully caffeinated yet. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601634 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:00:12 +0000 looch 1601634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: story of my life...I feel like everything is a question...do you want this or that? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601630 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:57:57 +0000 Mamaof2 1601630@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: That happens at 3 too except instead of JUST whining they tell you in words and whine! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601576 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:41:51 +0000 littlek 1601576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@winniebee: Yes, the whining! and over the small stuff. Ex: I gave him the wrong banana, how is that possible? Or I didn't peel the orange correctly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601463 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:07:27 +0000 HLK208 1601463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Weagle: haha my days are exhausting from my 5 year-old talking all day. There are less questions now but there's just never a quiet moment. He has a thought and opinion about everything and let's the world know! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601456 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:05:45 +0000 HLK208 1601456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3. 2 was a piece of cake compared to 3 :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601454 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:05:01 +0000 Weagle 1601454@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hope 3. Though, two isn't terrible. LO is completely capable of expressing herself, but she still has the immaturity of a two year old (duh). I'm hoping that at 3 she'll be able to reason a bit more and maybe even play by herself a bit more. She's very much an extrovert. I'm not. Our days are exhausting to me just from her talking nonstop. Who knows... We need to get through 2 first! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601432 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:58:48 +0000 winniebee 1601432@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlek: mine still whines a lot when he is frustrated or can't express himself. I can deal with the difficulty or stubbornness the whining kills me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601423 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:57:07 +0000 littlek 1601423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: He's a great kid. But there are just some times I want to hit my head against the wall because he doesn't have the words to express what is wrong so he just cries. I feel he's close to a word explosion so that is a lot of our issue right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601413 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:55:20 +0000 looch 1601413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The problems get a little weirder as they get older. I find myself trying to have a conversation with a kid who's bent on getting his way and doesn't quite yet respond to logic or reason.</p> <p>For my son, the span from 2 to 3 was a time when there was a lot of change, so naturally, I expected him to be a bit difficult, which he was. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601405 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:53:38 +0000 littlek 1601405@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think our biggest problem is that he is not able to fully express himself with words. I'm hoping by the time he hits 3 he will have a better use of his words. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/what-age-is-tougher-2-or-3#post-1601401 Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:52:23 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1601401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It depends on the kids I think. We have friends that were hard in the twos, easier in the threes and vice versa.</p> <p>For us the 3's were way tougher. 2's were a breeze. Olive is still in her 2's so I don't know what her 3's have in store for us! </p>