Comments on: Comparison

By: Jerri Ann

Jerri Ann — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:05:38 +0000

No, dear, three’s are way worse..way way way worse. Sorry!

By: kimblah

kimblah — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:50:55 +0000

doooooode i know i say it all the time but take yours times three! all of my 2 1/2 yr olds do that bipolar giddy/angry thing. i have a theory that being a kid is like tripping on acid for years so nothing really makes sense from the outside looking in.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:33:57 +0000

I think I have now been cured of any desire to have children

By: danelle

danelle — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:47:33 +0000

The threes depend on how you handle the twos. Like….time out is not negotiable.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:38:15 +0000

It doesn’t get any better. It is all down hill from now Zoot. Sorry =) My boy was laid back and I never had any trouble out of him – but Ryleigh is a whole other story. she is demanding, whiney and a diva. But I love her more than life itself.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:56:52 +0000

We had four. My motto now is “Crush them while they’re young.”

3 was pretty bad, as I recall; as bad as or worse than 2. 4 was better, except that you’re so relieved that they finally SEEM rational that you forget they are 4, and then they do something outrageous. At 5 they get giggly and annoying. 6 to 11 were by and large the easiest years. Our general rule seemed to be that odd years were harder than even years.

By: supertiff

supertiff — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:47:50 +0000

i’ve always heard that the 3′s are worse than the 2′s. for your sake, i will hope this is not the case.

also, i think amalah might have a good book or something (non-assviceish) about how to get your kid to stop hitting you…i think i remember her going through a phase like this…

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:52:02 +0000

Oh, great.
My boyfriend has twins – soon to be three. I am barely hanging on as it is (I never wanted kids, now it looks like I’ll be a step mom to FOUR of them).
Interestingly, the boy is adorable, and the girl is pure evil….

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:58:17 +0000

It’s been a very long time for me but I guess 3 was worse than 2 but it was also so very much better. My favorite years with the kids are once they are really talking and able to communicate. The hardest thing for me was adjusting to the fact that the tactics that worked with my first child did not work with the 2nd even though he was the more easygoing one, he could not be reasoned with when he got his mind set on something.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:12:53 +0000

I am dealing with the terrible two’s for the first time as well, and since next year I’ll have a 3 year old AND a 2 year old, please tell me it gets better! I swear my oldest was the nicest boy until he hit 20 months, then a demon child started to appear! 90% of the time he’s still perfectly wonderful, then the other 10% I just want to pull my hair out. And then there’s my younger son, who’s 18 months younger than big bro, but is fearless to the point of causing mommy to need anxiety drugs and stubborn beyond belief! If I survive the next 2-3 years, I’ll be plum amazed!

So, what I’m saying is that I’ll be dealing with what you have at the same time! I’m just praying that they don’t team up against me too much!