To hate three year olds?

[dappply]

Selfish, self centred, greedy, manipulative, vindictive little tyrants.

YABU. DS is gorgeous right now most of the time and very affectionate when he's not thumping my arm.

I have found 3 a really nice age...they're still babies really, but walking and talking and full of affection for mummy. My youngest is 3 atm.

YANBU. My three year old spent most of today either demanding food or making completely impossible requests such as screaming incessantly unless I make her teddy some origami paper shoes. And she shat in the shed.

nocake, and now I feel your pain!

I haven't had to do kangaroos or goldfish but I have been a horsey for so long that the other day, he kindly told me I was his "trusty steed" This also involves piggy-backing him around at speed. And then his brother.

I am regularly a Mummy Monster and made the mistake of roaring at him in aforementioned soft play, which then got me an entourage of 5 pre-schoolers, wanting to be roared at and chased.

I think I might have been a dinosaur but am genuinely not sure.

I also love the random lying. What did you do yesterday? I went on an aeroplane / to the zoo / to my friend's house. NO YOU DIDN'T. THAT WAS 3 MONTHS AGO!!!!

Yeah, I hate 3 yos but they are awesome!

YANBU

My youngest is a little git at times, cunto made me laugh... I just mouth swear words when I walk out of the room, may add that to my list!

Mine is 3.6 and can be a really vindictive and spiteful little sod (very loving at times but he tests my sanity in ways I never thought possible)...

dappply Start counting down the year/s to school! My horrible horrible horrible to the point I would be crying my eyes out in middle of shops 3 year old is now going up to year 1 in september yippeeeee, and hes actually turnt out really really nice. Can actually say I enjoy my kids company now. It soo gets better

OAM2009 I really miss that now actually, aw all the balloon rides nanny took him on LOL

YANBU

My 3yo dd2 alternates between cute and bloody awful. Sometimes I really don't like her! Obviously I don't let that show.

Inneed

I do find it frustrating and embarrassing that I can be out-thought and out-maneouvered (?) by a 3yo!!! It really is easier to tell someone else how to parent than do it yourself!

And between them, they never, ever, ever let me sleep! I have not woken up naturally by myself since DS1 entered the world!

YANBU...a 3 year old twisted himself up in my curtains (in newly decorated room) on Friday. He pulled the whole fooking lot off the wall! Not my 3 year old either...

Dd is 3.1 and a right handfull.

OAM2009 I would try waking them up about 5am dosing them up with medised and going back to bed for a lie in!

I can sleep trhough anything though so normally on a weekend they would get in bed with me plus stacks of toys and cushions and the biscuit tin and trash my room. Used to wake up covered in crumbs and everything everywhere but ohh those extra hours was a lovely.

dappply Im sure other posters will be along soon to tell you how horrible you are but I get it totally, I used to get so wound up by mine I would hiss im sending you to your dads to live since your so horrible, ect ect. I really did turn into a complete bitch and everything was a battle. The book how to talk to your kids soz don't know how to link is really really good with a added 123 involved.

My PFB DD is two and already strops for Britain. You mean she might get WORSE???
Will just have to add cunto to my vocab'.....

OAM Trusty Steed! I like it! DS sat on my back today, proceeded to strangle me with my hoody and told me I was his pony now and I must giddy up.

Do you remember that cartoon, Stressed Eric?

DS also doesn't seem to know the difference between yesterday, last week or several months ago. I don't know that that's lying though, I think it's genuine lack of understanding of how time works. They just seem so sure of everything that you tend to believe that they know what they're talking about and then somehow forget that they don't.

Yabu, you were 3 once , unless you completely bypassed being a kid.
However bad the tantrums are, 3 is the best age- they are still at the stage where they love cuddles with mummy and everything is so magical, my 3 year olds eyes light up even just on a shopping trip.
She turns 4 next month, its going to fast, and shes off to school in Sept.
Im going to really miss our days together, you cant get those years back, cherish them

YANBU! My dd is 3.5 and terrible twos was ok, this is awful! She's stroppy and has a serious attitude problem! I bet this is what having a teenagers like...??
Don't get me wrong I love her to bits but love her more when she's asleep!!! :-p
We can get through this!!

To did not mind my own DC's too much when they were three but other peoples can be are usually irritating. They are what the OP has described them as. I avoid them if I can, especially in coffee shops.

But yes, they can be cute I suppose

YANBU

YANBU. Have you met any four year olds?

I'm slowly realising this could get worse before it gets better.

Again, my three year old makes me grateful that my newborn is up a few times a night, so my husband is up having to put cunto back to bed again, again. How can the two year old that slept 12 hours straight every night be now not in bed till 930pm, up a few times in between and up for the day at 5? He must be exhausted. That's maybe part if the problem, but the boy won't be reassured, cuddled, reasoned with, ignored, bribed or rapid returned. He just has to be in charge.

If I wasn't so tired, and fed up with his casual violence, disrespect for property and dishonesty, then I'd feel sorry for him. I think he's wrestling some pretty weighty and nasty feelings and concepts for the first time. The book "how to talk" is great, and I try very hard to use it's advice. Tis just difficult when your child is poking you in the eye and laughing in tittle face.

Newborn... there it is. DD is now eight months and DS (2.5) is still adjusting.

We sleep fairly well, but by no means sufficiently, and it's almost always due to the elder. DD is a sleep angel... I am dreading the redress we have coming to us on that score.

If I could just put it all down to the baby arriving I'd have far more guilt and sympathy ( which I'm overflowing with anyway. Seriously). But I look after another three year old too and he's just as bad, and together they are terrible.

Obviously I wouldn't be without him, but this is him up again wailing. Jeez, the baby is sleeping soundly. And tommorow he'll winge and shout and demand, regardless of what nice things I break my back for us to do. I feel like I barely look at my baby, just feed, change and then leave her to it then give him a nice time. And it feels like he throws it all back in my face

It's a fact of life that there are terrible 2's, threenagers & of course the Fucking Awful 4's.

You think this is bad, wait til next year.

I want origami shoes now

Compared to dss's teenage fucking angsty, thuggish out of order, almost criminal behavior, I positively adored ds1 & 2's toddler-school years, and am quite looking forward to ds3's too :) Although they have all been pretty high need babies so perhaps that explains my relief in just being past the baby part! Admittedly, other than the inexplicable lying from ds2 'there's an elephant in the garden mum', 'I walked to nursery all by myself today auntie p' etc, I was lucky not to encounter much else of the described behavior . Bet it'll be a different matter this time round lol.