What age is tougher 2 or 3? Please say 2.
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I think 2 was. But, DS was a pretty easy kid over all. Three was easier for me, cause he had started preschool and I had the help of his teachers to sort through the crazy stuff.
Plus, 3 is the age where they start learning a lot of stuff, and as long as you can keep them thinking and learning, they do ok. it's when they're bored that they become crazy.
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3 for both of my kids but 4 is much better!
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It depends on the kids I think. We have friends that were hard in the twos, easier in the threes and vice versa.
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!
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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.
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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.
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.
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@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.
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@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!
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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!
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3. 2 was a piece of cake compared to 3
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@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!
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@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.
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@littlek: That happens at 3 too except instead of JUST whining they tell you in words and whine!
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@littlek: story of my life...I feel like everything is a question...do you want this or that?
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@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.
ETA: this could also go in the other toddler thread. Not fully caffeinated yet.
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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.
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For us the 2's felt much harder than the 3's! All that whining about killed me.
We'll see with #2 though... every kid is so different.
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2 wasnt bad. 3 is good so far.
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DS is 3 and I feel like he gets easier and easier as time goes on. But who knows, it could all change anytime!
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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.
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3. i love 2!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I think it depends on the child.
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2s were harder! 3s was a breeze. 4s are a little harder than 3 but definitely not as hard as 2!
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in my experience, 3 and 4 were really tough.
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@locavore_mama: yup, definitely! agree with you that every kid is different.
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We are just approaching 3 and the boundary-testing and willful disobedience has started, argh. 2 wasn't at all bad, really.
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ps - 4 has been much, much better than 3!
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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
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@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 & try again!" then we do the wiggle dance.
Thought this past weekend she said, "I WANT MY WIGGLES IN! I LIKE BEING CRANKYYYYY!" so I guess it backfires.
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@Mrs. Jump Rope: hahahhahaha
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