What age do you think your kids were/are when life gets a bit easier?

[RoseGoldEagle]

I have a 4 year old, almost 2 year old and 3 month old. I adore them, but find it very tough, especially with our nursery being closed and DH working away a lot. Anyone tell me at what age it gets a bit better/easier??!!

It was shortly before my youngest was 5 that I really started to feel like things were getting much easier.

When he was 7 so not needing as much care and my oldest was 15 and responsible enough to watch his younger siblings for a couple hours so I didn't need to worry about childcare for every appointment or when we wanted to go out, I felt things were starting to get smoothly.

My children are now 9-16 and while live lessons and lockdown device usage is draining me, I'm finding these great ages as a parent - all the habits we've developed over the years seem to be mostly running on their own now.

It got a bit easier at 3/5 (2 year gap), enough that I realised that I didn't want to throw a third DC into the mix. If my body did pregnancy/ birth less brutally I probably would have ained for another close gap.

They're 7 & 10 now. Junior school is a lively mix of being still a child, but with some survival skills..

Mine are low sleep (10yo has ASD) so they keep to similar hours to us with little adult time in the evening. That's hard at present when there's no time and space apart.

3/4 things got much easier.

7 onwards they became actually civilised.