Aibu that everyone said the newborn was the hard bit?

[MissMarpletheMurderer]

The tough bit of parenting is the no sleep newborn stage. I accepted this it was bloody hard. I still kept a diary and I've just read back my feelings. It was hard, exhausting my marriage took a battering bit at least it was divide and conquer. We were a team.
Teenagers are a whole different ball game, they try to divide and conquer us. I am more exhausted and near to the brink than at any parenting age before. I have signed up to a parenting class but I'm very open with my friends and everyone is saying the same. Aibu to suggest the pre teenage part is the BYAGTG (best you are going to get?)

I found the baby stage easier with our first dc, the 2nd dc on the other hand, definitely more difficult. Dc2 is now 3 and I keep telling him the terrible twos is for when he was two, not two years.

In hindsight I loved the newborn/baby stage. My son was ridiculously easy and happy. He slept through from 10 months until 2.5. Since then it's been an uphill struggle.

I'm hoping it'll settle again! And then into the next stage...

I found the 7-9 or thereabouts stage the worst.

Not that it was bad really, more boring. Too old to be cute, too young to be interesting, their friends really annoying. I like other people's babies and toddlers, I like other people's teenagers, other people's children not so much.

An earlier poster wondered how secondary teachers do it. I wonder that about primary teachers. Can't imagine anything worse.