What age is tougher 2 or 3? Please say 2.
watermelon / 14206 posts
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.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
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!
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
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.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
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.
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
@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.
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@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!
coconut / 8498 posts
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!
pineapple / 12234 posts
@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!
GOLD / squash / 13576 posts
@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.
squash / 13208 posts
@littlek: That happens at 3 too except instead of JUST whining they tell you in words and whine!
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
@littlek: story of my life...I feel like everything is a question...do you want this or that?
coconut / 8861 posts
@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.
pomelo / 5298 posts
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.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
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.
pineapple / 12566 posts
DS is 3 and I feel like he gets easier and easier as time goes on. But who knows, it could all change anytime!
grapefruit / 4800 posts
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.
apricot / 370 posts
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.
blogger / pomegranate / 3300 posts
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.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
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!
coconut / 8299 posts
2s were harder! 3s was a breeze. 4s are a little harder than 3 but definitely not as hard as 2!
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
@locavore_mama: yup, definitely! agree with you that every kid is different.
blogger / pomelo / 5400 posts
We are just approaching 3 and the boundary-testing and willful disobedience has started, argh. 2 wasn't at all bad, really.
persimmon / 1171 posts
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
blogger / coconut / 8306 posts
@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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