School aged kids are EASIER than Toddlers

I am going to respectfully disagree but everyone’s situation is different. I have 5 kids ranging from 16 to 9 months. My oldest 2 are by far my most stressful.

My babies are the easiest part of my day.

I mean at this point a rabid squirrel would be easier than my toddler 🙃 But the “who has it worse” game is not a good one to play. Everyone’s hard is different and people are allowed to complain

@Haley Oml thank you I needed that laugh. Yeah everyone gets to bitch but that’s all she does. Not once have I heard her say something nice about her daughter. She dotes in my daughter and tells me how sweet she is (I agree my daughter is the sweetest ya know mom goggles) but she won’t hear anything positive about hers. She either comes back with a yeah but she’s too loud or stubborn or something negative. Like I love my sweet loud stubborn niece and if she would just take a minute to listen to what she had to say instead of yelling at her she would too.

Depends on the kids.

School aged kids are. Yes. Teenagers. No.

I’m not sure. My daughter can be very bratty when she wants to be and she no longer has the sweet cherubic face that makes it easy to forgive everything. She will sulk over the most ridiculous things and ignore her friends if they have a new pair of shoes. Plus I no longer get hugs or even a goodbye when I drop her off to school now as apparently that’s cringe.

You can only comment really if you’ve had both. Like if you’ve only got a toddler you don’t know what having school aged children is like. I have both an almost 17 year old and a 3 year old who is also autistic, so I know what’s hard

My teenager is a good kid but still he’s human and sometimes it’s silence from his teachers and sometimes it seems it’s always something so you stress about their grades, their behavior, what they’re doing when they’re there, this school event, that school event, their next steps in life, (he’s a freshman in HS), etc. My toddler? A wild animal. Equal measures. 😂

I’d say it depends on the child & probably also the parent. Some parents do better with younger kids, some with older. My MIL thought her daughter was low maintenance as a baby then became high maintenance the older she got whereas my husband was the opposite, she found him very difficult the first 3 years (he was second baby) but as he got older no trouble at all.

Also I feel so sorry for your niece, that’s not good to hear constant negativity 💔 Maybe tell her that’s enough you don’t want to hear her talk badly about your niece anymore even if it is her daughter. Ask her does she not have anything positive to say about her.

The thing is that everyone has a different opinion. All our children are different and what we find easier/harder is different too! I found newborn phase really challenging and find it really easy now she is 14 months old. Other people would say the opposite! We all feel different things and it all depends on US too like what place are we in?

The one with the least experience always has it worse. It’s her first time dealing with school aged kids, toddlers are much easier for her because she’s done it before. It’s your first time dealing with toddlers so it seems harder.

@Hind that is so true! Once it’s a chapter you have done, it’s easy to look back and think it was easier when comparing!

For sure it depends on the child but generally yes, school aged children are easier than toddlers 🫠

Baby stage was the wonder years, toddler years the twilight zone and now I'm in a warzone........incoming! 🤣 (I'm joking but you get the picture)