Parents of THREEnagers: support is here!

[pompomsgalore]

Following on from a thread I wrote yesterday in desperation.., it turns out there's loads of us here who have 3 year old tyrants who try to break us.

I thought I'd start this thread so we can all huddle together for support during this particularly difficult age.

The reality of parenting is TOUGH!

That last sentence made no grammatical sense. It is my fervent hope that when DD1 starts pre school in January I’ll get my brainpower back.

@Timeturnerplease I'm a primary school teacher too and it's completely blown me away how hard 2 kids are when I'd happily manage 30 with an eyebrow raise.

@Peachgreen that resonates. When mine is lovely she's really lovely. Great company, funny and bright. But when she goes off it's atomic.

@Rno3gfr of the laughing in the face is low isn't it. Can you imagine adults behaving like this to us?

Today my little darling decided that being refused another bar of malt loaf warranted launching nuclear war. Which is all in a day's work, but then he deliberately kicked the potty over. The potty was still full of piss because I'm only human. He now knows what mummy looks like when she is "VERY ANGRY. REALLY VERY ANGRY" (As do the neighbours I imagine but that's the least of my worries quite frankly).

God, today was just unnecessarily difficult. One of those days where you're sorely tempted to just do what they say the millionth time they scream at you to go away/ let go. Fine by me kiddo, I'm sure I'll be just fine in a hotel on my own for a few nights.

Currently being held hostage in a darkened bedroom because he couldn't possibly just go the fuck to sleep with me in the living room or with his dad sitting here.

🤣🤣 clicked on this thread as thought it was for parents of three teenagers!!! I'll swap you! Only kidding, three is tough, hang in there Mums ❤️

@Notthissticky Christ I hate it when they kick the potty over as it's a double blow. You think ffs I knew I was pushing my luck leaving that there and then you have to clear it up. Bastards.

This morning we had a full on screaming tantrum because I didn’t wait until Ben and Holly was finished before getting the baby changed and dressed. Apparently I should have know via telepathy that she wanted to ‘help’, and the baby should have also known this and thus stayed asleep until Ben and Holly finished.

We call our threenager a dictator. He had a danger nap at 3.30 on the way home so is now wired to the moon.

He wanted to bounce on the yoga ball, I was holding the baby and couldn't hold him so I said he could do it when daddy had loaded the dishwasher. Baby started crying so I wanted to use the ball (it calms her) so he had an epic meltdown. It took daddy so much longer to finish loading the dishwasher as a result, delaying his turn. Preschooler logic.

The baby is 8 weeks old, she is going through leap 2 and is also cranky all day. Thank God for Monday, he's at nursery

Does anyone like their threenager?