To be pssed off with Mothers Of Teenagers telling me how great it is having toddlers

[morningpaper]

Today:

: Oh you're so lucky to have two girls, they are best at this age.
(while cleaning up bits of pasty from the floor):

: I've got teenagers, and I only hear from them once a day!
: (crawling under pram to retrieve ripped up tissue) Sounds perfect
: (Going all serious and slightly affronted) No really, you don't know how lucky you are.

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGGH

this kind of thing REALLY REALLY annoys me

lily, has he got one of those flat, slapped forward, all over the face hairstyles that are mysteriously popular with teen boys? Like one big fringe

No my DS wants his hair to be spiky but it goes curly if he doesn't straighten it. I don't think that hair straighteners are a normal part of rugby kit and might cause some amusement - or be used for unspeakable things - on a tour.

ah, ok. My nephew uses straighteners and it seems fairly normal these days. Makes me smirk, though. Ponce

my dd often straightens ds's hair when he wants to look "emo"

i did buy him a little pair of straighteners for 2.99 from the local chemist

I can remember telling dd2 when she was having a tantrum in Tesco: "Just wait until you're a teenager and I can embarrass you".
She's not quite a teenager yet, but it's payback time...so I ignore requests like "please don't dance" (at PTA events) or "don't cheer and embarrass me" (at sports games).

Seriously, I found babies and toddlers far too much work for scant reward (cute as they were, I was just knackered all the time), and am having a ball with them now they're older - it's such fun.

I've got 3 through their teenage period in the last few years and under 5s are by far much much harder.