to think being a stay at home mother of babies and toddlers is an absolute bloody dodfle.

[StillIRise]

compared to being a full time working (shit shifts) mother of stroppy, hormonal, expensive, complicated teenagers.

I am much more bone achingly knackered now than I was then, after a day of playdough and music group, with an afternoon nap or quite hour in front of a disney dvd.

The days when i could do tea, bath, story and bed by 6.30pm.

Compared to 8 hours on my feet, bit stressy, get in, feed 3 different times, drop off, pick up, nag about homework, worry about dodgy friends, drugs and unprotected sex.

U?

I think not.

Oh no MoreFish this must be a serious Fred as OP didn't state it was lighthearted.

But if it were a competition I would win, I'm sure.

It's all nackering, whatever stage you're at. The grass is always greener.

My toddler has novovirus, my baby is up all night coughing. I'm on my own as DH is always working and I've finally started puking too. I've never been as tired in my entire life as I feel right now. It all gets easier, right?!

Hope you have a better night, OP.

As a SAHM to two under five I simple don't need to hear that it gets a lot harder!

[sticks fingers in ears] LA LA LAL A LA LA LA LA

BTW just to stoke the fire I'm finding with one is school and one in preschool for 7 hours a week that things are now pretty easy.

But that's because I'm shite at housework.

i
think
being
a
mother
is
hard

I have cooked a lovely beef casserole this afternoon and my lovely children, who i thought might have more class than myself, insisted on haviong bread and butter with it and have left most of the good stuff as butternut squash tastes like crap apparently
13,11&5

I have a teenager, toddler and baby.
I am thirty. I look like I am a hundred and thirty.

The point of my comment was to say its all hard work!

Arf fustrated I forgot we have to specify now!

yeh i'm 34 and look like 43 or something too

Grass is always greener...

are you puppetmonekying morefish or whatever it is called sockmonkeying
puppet dogging
puppeteering

Wanksocking?

Nope.

Why would I be sockpuppeting?

Am i supposed to specify a deadly serious observation or a slightly pisstaky rant now than?

I love having teenagers.

I am a sahm to school children who are mostly well behaved and I have a cleaner and a gardener.
I win
Bet you wouldn't swop though.

You are probably tired because you are ageing. If you are concerned go to the GP. Menopause makes you tired.

I just have the 1 I'm 20 and luck about double that since I started uni. I do a 9-4 most days, with a 2 hour commute each way. Plus work at home in the evening. I've forgotten what a life is, and actually atm I'm struggling to fit in breathing let alone anything else!

Surely I win? Lol

*look

what the hell is wanksocking
oh
dear

how about dogroughing and hothousing

Because you were the only poster to see through my rant to my fragment of humour fish.

I am not morefish.

I don't like fish unless swimming in a tank.

I don't like fish either but my cousin is a kingfisher and takes a different view

Most of parenting is difficult. Period. Working AND parenting is doubly so, I imagine. I would fail at it spectacularly, I suspect, so hats-off to mums that do.

I don't think teenagers are necessarily worse. It's just that you're older so it feels worse. You had energy back then.

Anyway, I win. I had 2 teenagers, a toddler and a newborn simultaneously. And we lived in a shoebox.

And the shoebox was in the middle of the M25.

And your point is what exactly. Unless someone is planning to miss out the baby toddler stage and just acquire them when they are older then we all go through every stage. Some bits are easy some hard. So what.