Most and least favourite age of children so far?

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Most: 7-9 months was fun for us. I also liked 2 months. Exhausting but easy in sense of feed, sleep on me, nappy, repeat. Still new.

Worst: 5 months was hell. Around 11 months was pretty awful too.

What fun/horrors do I have to come?

Least favorite-late teens.
Most favorite-adulthood.

I found the hardest from 18m to 2yo - old enough to be deliberately naughty, and too young to reason with. Best bit - anything from 5yo is good so far. My eldest is 15.

Favourite age - 11 to 14
Least favourite - 2 to 4

Mine are only 2 and 3 so I feel the worst may be yet to come... although having a terrible 2 and a threenager in the house can be... interesting 🤣

Best age for babies was 6-8 months. They were so cute and interactive yet chilled at that age. From 9 months it was harder as they were both really frustrated with their limitations and were very vocal about how annoyed they were at not being able to walk or communicate.

I found age 2 the hardest with ds1 and I am finding 2 year old ds2 very trying at the moment. He is very, very whingy, cries at the drop of a hat and is still too young to reason with.

I am loving the stage my 3 year old is at though. He was a late talker but he has caught up now and he is so funny and cute and tells me he loves me all the time.

I repeat the word "toddlers" until any broody urges pass.

Babies are fine until roughly 12m. 4+ gets better. Made it up to 10 so far.

Please tell me that the teenage years can not be as bad as a fustrated toddler with a limited vocabulary and undiagnosed ASD. At least I'll be able to walk out of the house and leave the teenager alone rather than having to battle him into clothes every time I need to leave the house. The other toddler was better but was nicknamed Ussain Bolt with good reason. 18m to 3 was his danger zone, but it over lapped entirely with DS1's terrible twos from 10m to 5.

My favourite has always been whatever age they are right now.

Newborn worst for both. Mine were both lovely babies at 3-4m. They were largely sleeping through and were just happy and content. My eldest is 4 and I don’t think I could pick a favourite year but I’ve enjoyed seeing her grow and learn new things. My youngest is coming up to 2 and while we have our fair share of tantrums, it’s lovely seeing her learn new words and become a little person. I just feel bad she doesn’t get as much attention as my first.

Mine never slept and yet I look back at their baby/toddler/childhood as the halcyon days.

When they were bouncing around the cot at 18 months, I knew where they were. When they were 16 to about 20ish I was still awake half the night because I didn't know where they were or had just rung to tell me they were waiting for the night bus on Lewisham High Street and had 1% battery.

Oh and post 16 collecting from parties it's good to keep a bucket in the car .

Things improve the closer they get to graduation. DS is almost nice again now he's doing a PhD.

A bit of a wry laugh from me. All of mine had their moments pre-school but all have had significant mental health problems at different ages between 6-18+
I don't think a "favourite age" is a useful concept unless you work with kids tbh.

DS1 has been a pretty lovely teenager - after being a pretty horrendous 5-11 year old

DS2 has generally been lovely since he was about 4/5 - little bugger as a toddler. As he's been the opposite of his brother I'm praying we don't have a nightmare teen time with him...

Age 5 is my favourite -still cute, but funny and super crazy.

Love newborn to 3 months. 3 months to 2 is bloody hard work. 2 to 3 hmm but I prefer older kids so 6 upwards. I have a 6 year old and an 11 year old

Late teens.

3 and 16 years have been my fave ages so far.
10-13 years are ages I have struggled the most with.

5-12 the golden years for me too. 14 is emotionally exhausting and much much harder than I ever imagined.

3 - 8 months of dd nearly broke me as no sleep and we got proper flu am sure as a result of immune systems hit by zero sleep.

Lovely ever since my two early / mid teen.

I found the newborn stage really tough and when ds2 started crawling I wasn't sure how i'd ever cook a meal again. Now ds1 is 6 and ds2 is 2 I really enjoy it. We just had our Friday late night with ds1 playing board games and eating chocolate, was lovely!

My daughters are 13, 11 and 8. I find the older two much easier and generally more lovely to deal with as they start to become mini adults. Love this age.

Mine turned 2 two weeks ago, every stage is different and fun! A little boring when they're baby babies(imo) as they can't do anything but parenting him is becoming more challenging as he's got an opinion now, I wouldn't say there is a worst or best x

It's so funny how everyone finds different times the easiest/hardest.

For me, months 0-4 were horrendous. I had twins, so the lack of sleep and no routine was hard.
Month 5 was the golden month!! They started napping 2 hours in the day, were in some routine, slept a bit better at night, and I didn't have the effort of cooking meals.
Months 6-8 were busy getting up to speed on weaning.
Months 9-10, they were night weaned and slept mostly through the night.
Now they're 11 months and so funny!!

So everything after about 4 months has been great.

My DS was such an easy baby & toddler so the first four years or so were very enjoyable .... teenage years the worst 14-17 .... much easier now he's away at Uni & nearly 20 .

Best was 0-3 mths...1-5 yrs then 7-9 and after 11 is just grim lol

I have 4...age 17, 15, 8 and 4

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5-12 the golden years for me too. 14 is emotionally exhausting and much much harder than I ever imagined.

14 is hard

8 plus so far

I have a 13 yo, a 10 yo and an 8 month-old. The 8 month-old is just crawling and busting everything, the 10 yo is noisy and at that pre-secondary point, and the 13 yo is a hormonal Kevin-esque typical teenager!
Hands up if you think I'm nuts for the age gaps?!
Yeah me too, but I wouldn't change it