To think its a big fat lie that parenting gets easier as your dc get older?

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My dc are 10 and 7 and tbh it's harder now than it ever was when they were babies! I am as tired now at the end of the day as I was when they were five months old and not sleeping.

Admittedly I am a lone parent but while they are awake I rarely sit down. School run, activities, play dates, keeping entertained at the weekend and after school, dog walking, housework, general admin, OU degree.

It doesn't get easier at all, everyone fibbed, I look in the mirror and I look ancient and stressed all the time. Don't get me wrong I adore my kids and wouldn't change anything, it's just such hard work and not what I had been led to believe!

Hurrah tunnocks! I really hope that will be the case, but steeling myself anyway!

Ooop! I meant Hurrah AllDirections! (How confusing!)

tunnocks-Gah! I hadn't read your post properly, sorry for the grin.
I am really sorry you are going through such a shitty time. Life can truly be a mountain to climb sometimes, and I doff my invisible hat to your fortitude x

I'm so sorry Tunnocks what a difficult time for you .

Tunnocks - that's a tough gig however old your kids are. I hope everything goes your way and that your DH is ok. What a bastard of a situation.

As to the OP - as others have said it all gets easier physically and time wise. But you never stop being a parent. It can be emotionally really, really tough. But at least ( on the nights they ain't out larging it) you get a decent nights kip. And you aren't scraping shit/vomit off all your surfaces (well, not every day!)

None of us ever really know what is round the corner, and I think appreciating the right now is something we should all be trying to do.

And appreciating the right now, hard as it can be, is something we should all try to do. I will remember that.

What is with my typing today?!

I don't understand how it is so hard when they are at school all day and you don't even have a job (that you mention)? They are old enough to jhelp out and certainly don't need 'entertaining' on an evening and weekend, they need to learn how to entertain themselves.
I have 5 children , youngest 2 simlilar age to yours + 3 older ones and work 30 hours a week am doing a (littlre course and I don't feel that life is so hard.

Much easier when they get bigger ..
Dd now 25 with husband , house and 3 kids of her own .
Just lovely , she even has time to pick up our darling pup everyday and walk him and look after him until we finish work .
If I had known children could be this useful I would of had more than one :)

A family friend once said, when his daughter was 42, "the first 42 years are the hardest"

tonnocks so very sorry for that. How bloody dreadful for you all. Hugs and .xxx

It's only when you have a terrible thing threaten your family that you stand still and just thank god for what you have.