Anyone else feeling sad as their children move into the teen years?

[Trekkinntremblin]

Anyone else feel sad that their preteen kids are through their proper childhood years and the next stages are teen and adulthood and all the seriousness and anguish that comes with that?

They even look so different, carry themselves differently, and no longer have the wide eyed innocence… it goes so incredibly quickly.

Luckily I also have a 2 year old so I get to experience it all again.

How do others cope?

God no the older they got the better. Now 21 and 22 and wouldn’t go back for all the tea in China. We have wonderful times together as young adults as we did in their teens.

I have a DD14. I think it’s the change that’s a huge shock as it came on so quickly. Sometimes I don’t recognise her and I miss her. Other times I love the person she is becoming. I would love just one more day when she was 3 though….

Yes, I miss the fun of them being children. It has been replaced by a surly, rude teenager who looks at me and talks to me like I am a piece of 💩I keep on keeping on, hoping it will get better but it is painful.