Do you have an age of children you dislike the most?

[SashMontgomery]

I’ve been thinking for a while that somethings going on with my daughter and I and I’ve been trying to find ways to repair our “broken bond”.

But I have just spent a whole week with other kids her age and I realised, I think it’s just this age group that I don’t like very much! I mentioned to my friend and she said she can’t stand the toddler age where’s as that’s my fave one.

Was just wondering if anyone else had preferences like this!

13-15 - at their moody, teenage worst.

Having worked with children over many years I'd say ages 8-10 are my least favourite. My eldest daughter is approaching 8 and I can already see it coming! The cockiness, the thinking they know better, the eye rolls alongside the silliness and having to allow them to start dealing with the social consequences of their behaviours without intervening too much i.e: falling out with friends etc. Obviously she remains one of my favourite people in the world who I would die for in an instant but my word I know the next couple years my head is going to be so done in....and then it's the middle ones turn 😂 also girls are waaaaay more annoying at that age than boys in my opinion.

Approaching teens and starting to find it difficult

Babies/toddlers/young children are tiring but good parenting is fairly basic and straightforward (if there’s no additional needs etc).

But as they approach teens and into the teen years I think it’s so much harder to know what the right thing to do is, how to be a good parent all the while having to loosen the reigns. It feels so daunting!

Having a 3 year old in 2020

How many children you have, what the age gap is and personalities of the children has more of a bearing imo on how easy you find teenagers, than how happy you are (whatever you believe that to be as a result of)

Abso-freaking-lutely. The worst.

Give me allll the newborns. I'll gladly swap for the teenagers!

Brilliantly put.

When I was teaching...... those upper KS2 girls...oh dear. Give me stroppy teenagers any day of the week! I don't know what it is - but your analysis is as close as it gets.

Interesting and very wide variation!
Mine are grown up now.
Two boys two years apart FWIW.
I hated the baby stage.
So many people complaining about 7 to 11 age and I always thought of those as the golden years.
Teenagers? Mine were lovely as were all their friends.
But babies nearly did for me.

15 is HARD

I'm finding my DSS hard work at the moment. He's 8 and has recently started eye rolling, back chat, having to be told to do something 3, 4, 5 times. He also is going through a weird phase where he desperate to do grown up things like watch a scary film but still cuddles teddies at night so it's hard to suggest an activity that he won't sneer at for being "babyish" but not too old for his age realistically.