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Lol, sounds like my only!
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Not true for us- both of my girls are high-needs and challenging. And awesome
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It's funny how we all use such different criteria when determining which child is the more challenging one! Both of my girls have been good sleepers, although DD1 was a freakishly good sleeper from the start, but in terms of behaviour, that is where DD2 is the more challenging one! I am not exaggerating when I say DD1 has never, in her 3.5 yrs of life, had a tantrum; for DD2, they have been a daily occurrence, usually multiple times a day, since about 15 months. She is also the one to find the one potentially dangerous item in a room of a thousand baby safe items! And she's in the throes of the 'NO!' stage, again something DD1 never went through. It's funny how different they all are - can't wait to see how #3 is!
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great... you scared me! (due soonish...)
This is actually my biggest worry. I've heard this a lot bc my LO1 was fairly easy and still is. I've seen my friends and their experience and am terrified about my 2nd.
The only sliver of hope I have is I was an older sister to a brother and my mom has always said he was the easiest one.
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@Ree723: haha both terrible sleepers, early nap droppers, and multiple tantrums a day here! My first may have even been more difficult, but I won't know until my littlest hits 2.5- that was the peak at which the tantrums were daily, hours long, and she hurt herself and us, and broke things. She's really a sweet and good child, they both are, they just have some strong temperaments ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Both? My second is much more laid back about life, but he really is SO mischievous and delightful. He's got my number. Spend two minutes on my IG and the troublesome glint in his eye is pretty obvious.
My first is much more cautious, and very picky about rule following- he is my personality twin. We've had much more work to do with communication, so his semi-spectrum status may be an extenuating circumstance. While E looks like me, he has my husband's personality. I'm in so much trouble with this one.
Regardless of what each of our definitions are for easier/more challenging, we can all agree that each child is so different, not something I'd really thought much about before my second arrived. Not that I was expecting C junior, but E is SO very different.
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So far, my 2nd is world's easier than my 1st! Which is great because I don't know that I could have done two super difficult children LOL
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Yes! My friends and I talk about this all the time. DS1 is so sweet and really has always just gone with it. DS2 is much more opinionated and clingy. He is still very good but is more work and I have to keep a close eye on him or I could very likely find him swinging from the light fixtures.
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This couldn't be more true for LO2. He is beyond exhausting!
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that's true of me and my younger brother, but olive has definitely been easier than charlie so not true for them!
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I'm a second child and this is so not true for me. I was the easiest kid according to my mom and so easy going.
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This doesn't ring true for my family! My younger sister was MUCH easier than I was (she could sit quietly, hands folded, for an hour while I had dance practice when she was 2!) My husband was also much easier in temperament than his older sister (though, he did quietly make big messes). So far, our DS2 is an easier baby than DS1, but he's only 3 months old, so we'll see...
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So my second is only 4 months, but he's more clingy, a worse sleeper, but overall has a much easier going personality. If someone's holding him, he's happy as a clam. My first was a much tougher newborn and has stayed pretty high maintenance. Add to that I had ppd/ppa with #1 but not #2, so I really have felt #2 is easier.
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Our second born girl is and isn't like this article all at once. She's an astoundingly good sleeper, her and her older sister get on famously and she generally is chill and not requiring a ton of adult attention. However, she is by and far my most stubborn child, she is wild and fearless in a way my old has never been and gets into the wildest/grossest predicaments if left unattended for longer than 2 seconds. I prefer to think we have been given the gift of second child spirit- she's our wild child but in a way that makes us all better for being with her.
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So I'm the 2nd born and my mom always tells me what an easy baby/child I was and how difficult my older brother was from birth. So not true in our case
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It's true in our case, if you compare from age 1 onward. My older LO has been really easy, he's very serious, obedient, pretty calm. My younger one isn't a terror, but she's definitely more difficult than her brother.
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