What don't you miss as your children grow older?

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Saw the horrific words
World book day
On a thread earlier, bought me out in a cold sweat
People often talk about what they miss as their children grow up but as a parent of teens and adults I do not miss
Potty training
Weaning
World book day
PTA events
Broken sleep
Anyone else have things they don't miss 😂

Other
People’s
Poo

School fairs

Starting to get us all ready at 8 am in the morning ( after a sleepless night) but not managing to actually leave the house until about 11.30, and even then covered in a splash of vomit , porridge, a few other unmentionables, and tears ( my own !).......
and I only had 2 children !

I don’t miss lifting a heavy toddler, wether that’s walking down the road or a sleeping toddler (dead weight!) out of the car seat or to bed.

I don’t miss changing Beddings etc after they’ve wet the bed.

I don’t miss toilet training.

I don’t miss thinking up ideas for weaning food.

I don’t miss helping with homework.

I don’t miss hosting the parties or planning them

It’s probably easier to talk about what I do miss

Yes to everything on here but now they are early 20s its just worry ; I thought it got easier but it just changes to just different worries! I liked 10 to 13 ages myself but it's amazing how much you forget about the really early days!
Parenting is hard going.

Orthodontists and riding lesson observation. Glad to see the back of those drainers.

The school gates should come with a health warning : what is it about the simple job of picking up/ dropping off that causes so much angst and bitchiness and grown people behaving like recycled teenagers!
I was so relived when all that finished.
It is hell.

you have reminded me of the summer tournaments. Football and sunstroke. Pitching up for the day with gazebo and picnic chairs, the more they won the longer you had to stay.

Oh yes. Also I don't miss being the person who had to either organise the tournament, or organise the team turning up and bringing food, or organise the general catering for the events, all of which were my 'volunteer' job at one point or another.

Once they can get themselves up, have a wee, serve themselves a bowl of Cheerios and milk, and turn the TV on, you know you’re on the home run.

Until they become stroppy teenagers.

My youngest is 8 and has had loads of time off school with illness. I won't miss having to juggle working from home and annual leave because of sick kids and school hols
Also having to go on holiday in school hols!

Saturday morning fucking football. In winter. Which they hated and only did because I insisted it would be good for them.

I don't think it made the blindest bit of difference to construction of their character, in retrospect.

We could all have had lie-ins and we'd be exactly where we are now.

Mine are 5 and 2 and (touch wood) are sleeping through the night!! 5 long years haha I don't miss getting up in the night lol!

I have a 4 year old and 20 month old- this thread is giving me hope! 😁

The school run.
Making sure they did their homework.
Parents evening.
Nits.

The thing I don’t miss from having little ones is that life consists of ab endless round of pooing, dressing, bathing, Sleep management, eating. I really like eating, but I like the rest to be in the background, not the foreground of my life.
It made me feel like a Neanderthal with all that repetition of the basics.

Parents evening ..... We used to get the same comments twice a year for every single year of my DS's school life ..... having to sit there nodding and saying 'yes, yes quite agree ... thank you for your feedback ... we will encourage DS at home' or words to that effect was so draining .

Our DS is at uni now (yes, despite all those parent's evenings ) and our life is back to peace, quiet and tidiness .... its wonderful. I absolutely love my 'empty nest' .... DH finds it much harder.

Most of the things you mentioned didn't bother me.

I rummaged together a costume for book day, easily, with what I had, or bought something to finish off the costume.

These things never riled me.

or bought a Victorian costume on eBay for £5 as soon as I got the notification of said day, 3 weeks before. No sweat!

1 or 2 hours sleep when ds2 was a newborn and he cried off and on, all night, literally. Now that bought me to my knees.

The school gates should come with a health warning : what is it about the simple job of picking up/ dropping off that causes so much angst and bitchiness and grown people behaving like recycled teenagers!
I was so relived when all that finished.
It is hell.

Why is it so awful?? I’ve got a 7 month old so no idea but I never understand how it can be so terrible when you only spend about 20 minutes a day doing it! (But I’ve heard other people say it’s terrible not just you!!)

So many of these resonate
But the horror of juggling sick children and work was one of the most stressful
So glad that's not a problem any more

Sleepless nights - although my eldest is now 18 and rolls home after a night out at 3am and I can’t sleep until I know she’s home 🤦‍♀️

World Book Day and all the other dress in yellow/dress as an astronaut days

School holiday homework - the type where you’d have to make a working wind turbine out of the contents of your recycling bin. Always involved an expensive trip to Hobbycraft, a row and the kids sloping off to watch TV while I was left with a pile of actual rubbish on the dining table

The relentless irrationality of toddlers who do/don’t/do/don’t/do want the Peppa Pig plate/broken biscuit/etc

Nits

Them being excited about small things like finding a good stick
Walking to school
Whole mornings/afternoons spent sitting in the park in the sunshine
School yard mum chats
Bedtime stories

Oh missed the point...thought it was things you missed!

After 7 years DD will finally go in a toilet in her own when we are out. I don't miss sharing the cubicle at motorway services AT ALL.

Also when she grows out of it I'm burning all the Smiggle stuff. I hate that shop. The smell!!

Sadly, I quite like Justin/Mr Tumble and have a crush on Chris and Xand.

Mainly the lack of sleep and being touched all the time. I don't miss nappies or breastfeeding either! Or having to get the dc dressed and in the car rather than them doing it themselves.