bluephinTerrible twos? Terrible threes? Or terrible teens?
September 21st 2008 06:45
I was in a meeting just last Friday and one of the girls in the meeting asked me how old my kids were (the last time I saw her was more than a year ago when I was a few months on the way of giving birth to my second child). I told her that my eldest is 2 and half and my youngest is fifteen months old. She commented that I have a child at its “terrible twos” stage. I laugh, confirming that I actually do. Then my boss, whose got a teenager said that he thinks it’s more of “terrible teens”.
At this stage, my kids are just out of control and doesn’t want to stop moving (sometimes even while they’re asleep). They have so much energy that you would think out loud, “Don’t they ever get tired?” or “When will their battery start to go down?” Running... Screaming... Talking... Dancing... Playing... or even just being a pain in the you know where. They know how to charm you, to annoy you and to amaze you.
Is there really a stage when kids are at their most “terrible”, energetic and playful stage? Kids are kids, of course. They are good at what they do (no matter what it is). Being a mother of two boys (and one step-son at that), I know there is more to come for me. Boys are a lot harder to handle I presume. Girls are more refined, more behaved (?). I have yet to surpass their school days when they would come home all in dirt from a fist fight at school. Then there is the “terrible teen” stage when they would start to feel as if they are independent and capable enough to not listen to what their parents would say. Subsequently, puberty stage when they would start to have heterosexual desires, peer pressure and all aspects of life that I have seen before. And with a tougher world now more than before, it looks like it sure to be a lot more “terrible” than I never thought it would be.
Lucky I have a dependable and family-oriented husband beside me. I just hope he’ll be there all the way.
So, it’s really not terrible twos or terrible threes or fours or teens... I think perhaps it’s more of terrible childhood stage as parents like me try to guide their children until they are old and matured enough to be left learning to live life by themselves.
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