You know how people say "Ooh, three's worse than two, you know..." and your heart sinks...?

[Pruni]

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no they'll say 'ahh the 4 year old testosterone rush'

oh please tell me its not true. DS is 2.1 and he's already driving me round the twist.

no pruni
instead of throwing tantrums
they become cheeky as they have learnt more words by then

Oh, people always try to freak you out
A few months ago my dd (now 17 months) was being a complete nightmare as her favourite game was throwing everything out of the toybox/brickbox/bin/off the bookshelves etc and I posted desperately on MN 'please tell me this is as bad as it's going to get'.... Of course everyone gleefully posted that it was going to get a lot worse and then lo and behold, a few weeks later she learnt to put things INTO boxes and suddenly life became heaven again

Then there are all the people who say 'If you think that's bad, just wait till they're teenagers....'

So all you experienced mummies of older children, what do we get to look forward to with each age?

more love and giggles

you needn't worry til they get to teenage - then duck!

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Ds3 is now 3 so I'm already past the testosterone rush with the other 2,and I've never heard of it,I expect I put it down to 'generalised badness' or something.
At least if you're warned of impending violence you can take evasive action though,like running away.No?

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Well,there you go,that's your mistake right there.
Plans??? With children?
[hollow laugh]Har de har har.[/hollow laugh]

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shhh .. don't look now but mumtoben on the 'bitten at nursery' thread is convinced that her 21 month old is good because of her fabulous parenting skills and that he will always be like that

mwahahahahahahhaaaaaa

Heh heh heh! Got to admire her optimism though eh?
Home educate? I consider myself doing well that all three are potty trained and can feed themselves.

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3 is a fabulous age, 4 even better. They are totally wonderful until they reach 11 and then the real problems start.

Appreciate the fact that young children can be distracted - try distracting a 14 year old with a squeaky toy!

rofl re 14 yr old and squeaky toy. You mean ds1 won't always want more train track for Xmas as well?

In answer to the original post, I'm afraid I have found 3 much worse than 2 with both ds1 and dd, but then they were "easy" babies and I probably had it coming! I know people who has v sensitive babies, lots of crying etc and were dreading the twos and threes but then the babies suddenly calmed down and were delightful. I think it's just random really - the only certainty is that they WILL go through something horrendous at some point, you just don't know when. Gosh, isn't parenting exciting!