I can't wait for the teenage years!

[TheCunnyFunt]

Then maybe DD will sleep till mid afternoon therefore giving me a lie in! She is 11mo and wakes too bloody early. 2am and 5am this morning S'not faaaaaair!!!

I'm not unreasonable really am I?

you dont have to wait till then...lol...around aged 8 children are quite capable of making their breaky and entertaining themselves, whilst you get a lie in ....xxx

I am afraid the flip side of that is you get to wait up half the the night wondering where they are when they start going out with friends,

And if you have boys they lose the ability to talk just grunt at you instead

I know but I'll still have to get up to do the school run at age 8.

Mine are 11 and 15 and I can quite see your point. There is a lot to be said for an age that can wipe its own bottom and take you a cup of tea when you're under the weather.

I spend my time waiting up for ds1 who is 17 to come in and waking in the night and getting up at 5 with ds3 who is 14months

In comparison I hardly know I've got ds2 at the moment. He is 9 and happily reads to himself in the mornings and makes his own breakfast.

lol @ 3teen...yes mine grunt too

also you cant tidy their rooms without coming out feeling sick....gross

I make them do their rooms, no where in my parental contract did it say i must risk my health entering toxic zones!

Pluses: independence (relative), get in and out of the car on their own, able to make a cup of tea, sandwich, the males can remove dead/live vermin brought in by the cats, help unload shopping, still love you (occasionally), tell you when they are hungry (all the time), something hurts (almost all the time).............

Minuses: multiple drop offs for sports activities in the middle of nowhere, ever increasing cost of gadgets and clothes (and sports kit), out beyond their curfew, angst over exams, their rooms, they think you know nothing beyond the confines of your domestic life and the life you have made safe and secure for them, UCAS, you don't necessarily know where they are, £54,000 of unbudgetted uni fees.

Oh, and OP, I still do the school run!!!!

I used to think teenagers slept all morning and like you op, I couldn't wait....

so my 2 teenagers now go to bed at about 10.30-11.30 at weekends....and still get up before 8, tired and crabby

wonder when they'll sleep in

I remember baby/toddler years being full of mini crises, which, once sorted, were easily forgotten. Evenings belonged to me and DH. Now with teenagers I feel I've started two years of GCSE crises, to be followed by the same for A level and Uni and with DD out babysitting tonight, I won't be in bed before 12.30 am (she's only just started, so not yet comfortable not to be welcoming her back or being on hand in the evening should she need me - though she never does).

Oh no - don't wish her life away! My dd will be 13 next week and I really miss her being little :(

You're waiting for the teenage years??

And Im wishing for the baby days back .

I find it harder now with teens than I ever did with babies ......

Nickseasterchick - couldn't agree more!

I had teenagers a baby and a toddler at the same time. Someone was always awake, I seemed to get absolutely no sleep.

Don't wish the years away, there's always good points and bad about every stage they go through, but once it's gone it's gone.

I keep not really joking that that when DS (4 months) is a teenager, and wants to sleep all weekend, I'm going to go into his room every 2 hours throughout the night with an air horn, demanding that he makes me a sandwich. Bitter? Me? Noooo.

You just wait op!!!As much as i love my 3dc teens, if i could magic them back to babies/toddlers, i would....... and then maybe skip the teen years and magically they are all grown up!!!