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What actually are realistic expectations of a 5yo?!

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Clu3l3ss · 01/03/2026 21:19

hello, I have a very nearly 5yo dd.

I love her very much. She’s funny, bright and imaginative but I also find it all so hard and frustrating. She literally argues with everything I say, even if I’m not really talking to her! She we have to ask her the same things over and over so I feel like such a horrible nag but it’s stuff she knows because we ask her every day.

she talks like a baby or just makes noises and expects us to understand. Every single day. It’s not that she can’t speak, she’s really eloquent. I feel like we play an read and engage with her loads but it’s like it’s never enough and so it feels like I’m always saying no but it’s because she makes constant demands.

I feel like I don’t enjoy being around her at points. I get that one thing is that I have no actual benchmark to go by. I only see glimpses of other kids so not sure if what I’m expecting is wildly unrealistic i guess what I’d love to know is - what kind of annoying things are just to be expected with a 5yo. What do/did yours do that used to wind you up?!

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