What age of child is the best?

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I do love he newborn stage but I think my favourite is 4. Just before they start school. Tantrums have stopped but still cute before they start the back chat and attitude.
What’s your perfect age?

6-8.
Still like adults, still sweet, but less needy.

Also I liked teenagers — 16-18. Funny and good company.

I’m loving the age my DDs at at the moment. She’s 3. Full of wonderment and always exploring and learning new things. Could do without the attitude and tantrums but it is funny to see what she kicks off about.

2 is ridiculously cute. But then mine never had tantrums so maybe that's why

16 up.

I loved the teenage stage, and I like them even more as young adults.

Apart from 9-12mnths old, I've ruddy loved it all !

But agree with a PP. The teenage stage is awesome: less intense and reliant on you but wonderful company and can be quite useful too.

Oooh tricky I love babies but obviously they are so time consuming as are toddlers . I’m gonna go for 5 and 17. 5 as they have stopped constantly running off every time you go anywhere and are great company and so enthusiastic and funny. 17 as they have gone through the stroppy teenage phase and you have great fun together !

26...they take you for lunch and pay 😀

About 8 is lovely. They've got some independence by then and start asking really interesting questions. But still happy to hold your hand and be seen with you.

Definitely not 15....

No contest- ages 5 to 10
All the rest is a bit painful.
16+ is pretty amazing too
Age 1-2 is the worst, the screaming and gurning just kills me

@Dickybow321

Your children never had a tantrum?

Okaaaaaaaay.

30 — 35?

One of mine never tantrums.
One did a hell of a lot

I'm loving 2 at the moment, as DD can actually have conversations and comes out with the funniest little phrases. She can walk a fair distance and tell me what's wrong when she is upset. She is remarkably tantrum free so far and is finally sleeping a bit. I find most children at their peak of irritating aged 6-10 so I'm savouring the toddler years, hopefully I won't find DD annoying though!

@andthelightshoneonandon
Your children never had a tantrum? hmm

Okaaaaaaaay.

Why would I lie? Another poster has said the same so it's not a given.

I want to know if anyone else has tantrum-free two year olds.

My mum says I had literally one tantrum. She remembers it well DS had plenty of tantrums, I still get the occasional one now at 5!! However I've loved the past 18 months (4+) I find him amazing all of the time pretty much. I hated 0-2!

It's all lovely really. The tiny baby stage is addictive. 18m-2.5y(ish) is awesome. You're starting to see their personality more and they're so much fun but they haven't turned into demon spawn yet. 5 and 6 is nice and my eldest is 6 so no idea what comes next.

I've got all 3 at the moment so maybe biased. 6, 2 (a nice 2, no real tantrums yet) and a baby.

3 is bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.

I want to know if anyone else has tantrum-free two year olds

Neither of my girls had tantrums as children. But by God they made up for it when they hit their teens!

Give me a 2 year old girl before a teen any day!

Saying that both my boys were lovely teenagers. They both had embarrassing toddler tantrums 😵

Yes DS1 had one tantrum. He is still a very easy going child. DS2 is just two and has already had several. I like everything after the first 18 months. Once they are mobile and can communicate life improves immensely.

I had one with tantrums and 2 with none so not out of the ordinary
I love newborn, 2, 5-10, 17/18 and over 30!
I didnt particularly like the early teens and when they were in their twenties I was anxious about some of the choices they were making that I was no longer involved with!

I remember reading some 19th century thing where it said "the home had those 2 essentials for a happy home - a puppy rising 6 months and a child rising 6 years"

I thought 4-6 was pretty wondeful. I do love the teenage years but they are seeped with worry about their futures. At 6 they were delightful, toilet trained, able to click their own car seat clicky, engaged with the world, funny, adoring us - and I didn't really worry about their futures. I'd actually go as far as 4-11 actually.

As it happens mine had very few tantrums. But I didn't find tantrums that bad anyway. it was the other stuff. I look at the photos of mine as toddlers and I melt - but at the time they were a combination of laugh out loud comedy show, kamikazi toddlers - look away for a second and they have impaled themselves - and pure tedium and boredom.

Just to make you all puke I’ve loved every single stage of mine. Every age has its ups and downs, I loved my babies, I loved my toddlers and I love my teenagers.
I suppose I just love em, mind you, they are fucking great

I loved the newborn stage. But I admit it was difficult with the sleep deprivation... God, I remember feeling mental! Honestly, I would never convict a new mother of anything... murder included! You practically hallucinate your days away! The 0-5 stage is probably extremely boring and if you don't have a support network then you are a hero! But yes I loved age 2...very very cute (but as I said, mine didn't have tantrums). They are now teens and lovely. My oldest is 16 and this weekend just had a sleepover where 5 attended. Such lovely boys. I heard one telling another off why he didn't put something in the bin! In the past few years I always marveled at how polite and lovely their friends are. (my boys have always been so it's nice to have confirmation that their friends are too)