To wonder why 3 year olds moan so bloody much?

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I think I preferred the age 2.

The fucking moaning is nails down a blackboard

4 year olds aren't great either tbh

Omg tell me about it! My 3yr old dd is a complete bloody whinge bag atm and I can't do anything right apparently 🙄

haha mine is the same! Already thinks he knows everything. It's exhausting. I just tune it out and think of something else :D

It is because they are just beginning to work out that they are not in control and cannot always have/do whatever they want. It pisses them off, and who can blame them!?

“Mummies can’t hear whingy voices”

My two have invented an imaginary play game where they crawl about being babies whinging to each other
It’s even more irritating than being whinged at, and I can’t tell them to shut up because technically, they’re playing nicely.

4yo: mummy, where did you learn to shout? Did your mummy shout at you?
Me: 😬 I don't shout that much do I?

I used to have faulty ears that couldn't hear whining...it does work, they stop if it's consistently ignored

It’s never bloody ending. I’ve started trying to pre-empt it with we can do x if you don’t moan until then….it doesn’t work and god help me if he gets tired.

I miss 2 too.

It gets better then worse again.

DD’s are teenagers.

They were whiny toddlers, delightful kids and tweens then whiny teens but they’re on the way out of that now as they are heading through their teenage years.

I think it’s normal.

‘I can’t understand you when you speak in that voice’

My 3yo woke up the wrong side of the bed today, again. Ive just carried him back from the playground after the 3rd meltdown cos he wouldn't take turns nicely.

Just 7 hours to go 🥴

My 4 year old is going through a 'why?' phase WAY harder than the one at 2/3. He never, ever stops talking/asking incessant questions. He asks the same questions on a daily basis. For eg, there is a yellow salt grit bin on our road and every single time we leave the house he asks what it is and why. Then he asks the same questions about why some houses are terraced and why some are detached/semi detached etc, inbetween the repeated questions he will have outrageous requests like can we go to America/a theme park/swimming now? Why? But I want to go now? I'm angry with you because you won't let me go to America today! He also is much more impulsive than he was at 3, more defiant and way less distractible. Give me 3 any day!

This made me laugh. My 3 year old reached peak moaning last night. I told him he could put himself to bed if he didn’t stop whining!!
Also never stops for breath from the second he wakes up (5am )

Mine is 2yrs 9months and I already can't deal with the winging. Constant "Muuuuuum" all the time. I was hoping it would end soon, clearly not. Gutted to read it could go on for another 2 years!!
Think I might take on the tips of "mummy can't hear Wingey voices"

I dealt with "why" by saying "why do you think? and they stopped asking. I'm not entirely sure that's a good thing...

My 38 year old
Husband is the same.

He's absolutely wonderful company 70% of the time. The the constant 'I'mmmmm saaaaad' moaning whenever I've said he can't do anything is causing me utter anger

They are in training to be teenagers.

Glad it's not just mine.

We never had the "terrible twos", but one day - while we were smugly congratulating ourselves on what a nice little boy we were raising - he turned 3, and into a whiney bugger overnight 😒

3 is so so so much worse than twos. It's hard. Am hoping it passes. Deep breaths

Ds2 is 24 soon. (He stopped moaning around the 21 mark! ) He was awful as a toddler. I can sympathize especially as they sometimes can't communicate why they are fed up.
It's hard.

Mine is a girl do they stop before they reach 38?

My 8yo DD is much worse than my 11yo DS. She's a proper drama-llama hypochondriac. Does my head in.

I instigated 'outside whingeing' when they were little. They get all the grumps out outside, have a good wail or shout or whatever, then they come inside and STFU. It mostly works.

3 is calm. Wait until they’re 8.

Oh thank god I was starting to think it was just mine! He is unbearable! Just moans all day long