I was told that parenting gets easier!

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Not in my experience. Dd is 6. Sure, I am no longer breast feeding and she's at school but she is so willful and I am so impatient. This heat doesn't help. Everything is accompanied by a constant winge and she isn't sleeping.

Plus I am a single mum who is prone to depression. We've been having battles recently.

I have tried to do a reward chart but she turns it on me and does a chart to stop mummy shouting! At least she's bright. I feel that I have to constantly manage her to stop her wrecking the house and being late in the morning.

Also struggling to get career off the ground. I do love her dearly but anyone who says that parenting gets easier is a liar or am I just depressed again?

It gets different :)

No nappies to change, or having to physically feed them, is great, but there are other challenges.

If you are feeling low then you can struggle to see the good bits.

Dd is wilful and stubborn, but also hilarious and interested. Sometimes I wish she would stop talking for five minutes, and other times I could hear her rambling for hours.

I know with ds (teen) there have been times I've struggled to share an interest with him. But there have always been positives.

There are certainly stages that are easier than others. I think 6 is quite a difficult one as they start to realise they are their own person and push boundaries.

I don't know if my rambling helped at all.

My point is, easier or harder, it keeps changing. This may be the worse stage for you, the next bit could be the easiest, but it keeps changing.

If you are feeling low, get to your gp and have a chat.

Who said it gets easier?
You could sue them.

They lied!

Urgh, missed your worries about depression, didn't mean to be so flippant.

Pp is correct, it gets different.

They seem so big in some ways, and you just wish they could understand how much lovelier things could be if they would just bloody listen!
I'm so there with ds (7.6), some days it seems that he likes being told off!

Please do see your gp op, let it out, don't let things fester.

I'm on anti depressants. It's my lack of patience. She's in bed whining for me to get the cat. The cat does not want to go upstairs and I need to do some work( I'm a teacher) so I'm not running after it. It's the whining that gets me. Hate it. Love her.

my kids whine too much. I picked them up from summer camp, and my son

was whining. I casually asked if he whines more than the other kids. She said yes