Funny article about terrible 3's!

Ridgebackmom

 10 Ways 3-Year-Olds Are Much More Terrible Than 2-Year-Olds

christinak22

So so so true! I'm ready for my 3yo to not be 3 anymore. 

kmjbjg

Love this!

AmericanInOz

Ha ha ha awesome !!

Jason&Erin82507

Gulp!

Kitten80

Love it!  I worked with pediatric population prior to kids and after about a year I asked my co-workers one day if my case load was odd because my 2  year olds were great, but I swear I knew when they were within a month of that 3rd birthday based off of behavior alone.  We all agreed "terrible twos" is some sort of sick joke, because in reality 3 was so much worse.  After having my own kids?  I am more than ever convinced of this fact. 

I will be saving that list for sure.  Numbers 7 & 8 were the only 2 we weren't laughing at the trueness of!

Court0026

Love this!

KatieandMark06

LOL so true and my daughter is 4 and it's like I guess now it's the terrible 4's?

Princess_Lily

@ 3.5yo I noticed these changes in him.

Maybe its just me but I still love three even if they are 10x harder.

I find the more firm the 0-tolerance rule is (no yelling at your elders when you don't get something you want, etc) the easier it is for them to enjoy the rest of their day. 

You still give them freedom of choice.  So what if the shirt they want isn't the adorable one you picked out - what if they want to wear their halloween costume to class?  This is the time to do all of those fun things - to just be a kid. 

Leap08

jenniferb123006:

Is it bad that short of pottytraining [she still has NO interest] my almost 3 year old does ALL of these things? Does that mean we're in massive amounts of trouble in a few months? And hi! I've been lurking on this board recently for ideas to entertain DD1 on rainy days. She would spend all day everyday outside if she could. She will be 3 in May so we aren't quite to preschool age yet but getting close.

Ha - I think my daughter did every single one of those things at 2. She was potty trained at 22 months and is incredibly vocal. She started that "I do it" stage around 2 not 3. That said, 3 has still been way more challenging for us than 2. I think it's mostly because she is trying to assert her own will much more than she did at 2.

stever

Yup, 3 is not awesome.

weddedwife

Hahaha! So true.