Kids are fine when they’re new, they stay where you put them. 
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Yeah, it’s from when they can walk, until they start school, that your work is really cut out.
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My youngest is 1 1/2 and he causes carnage. I caught him 2cm from landing head first as he dived off the sofa this weekend, tipped an entire bowl of cereal down himself at breakfast and so an entire outfit went straight in the wash not 30 mins after it was first put on and we’ve had to childlock practically every door in the whole house most of which he just uses his strength and yanks open regardless!!!
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Yeah our 5yo is a breeze normally, the 2yo is a major PITA right now.
She’s a screamer for a start, which drives me up the wall, as she has banshee level lungs on her. She has also worked out how easy it is to wind up her big sister and is incredibly possessive over everything. She shouts at the cat if it walks close to her stuff! And she’s adept at the toddler tantrums. They’re not as extreme and emotional as GB#1, but they are switched on in a micro second with no warning!
She is very good at picking the worst time as well for her exploits. She has an in bulit radar to know when maximum impact can be achived! haha
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Sounds like our youngest too. He’s an absolute animal.
This morning he was dipping his toast in his Cheerios, then picked the bowl up. Drank it like a cup then flung the whole lot on the wall.
Fml… 
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Oh and he also has a tendency to pull his nappy down and start playing with his “bo-bo” (his words) 
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I keep telling Mrs FP, that despite our exasperations, we do have it very lucky with Little One. It’s extremely rare that she wakes up in the night, 2 or 3 times a year.
She never gets out of bed, to the point where we told her she could if she needs the loo, but she never does. She’s never slept with us and never asked, she just knows that’s not happening. We have to wake her up on Xmas Day!
I wish she was a bit more assertive really. She’s fearless physically, surfing, riding, running, you name it but pretty shy when others talk to her. She said she wishes she could have a brother or sister sometimes but not often.
I’m just gonna buy her a pony instead.
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That’s the saving grace for ours really. They’re both really good sleepers. The youngest has woekn in the night 2/3 times since she’s been in her cot at 3 months. Makes the other side of things much easier to handle. Big one is ace as well. They’re pretty easy kids really, in the grand scheme of things. We have friends who’s little ones are much, much worse!
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Yeah when it’s happening to you, inside your own home, you tend to think 'why us, why our kid/s?)
Then you go out shopping and see what other parents have to deal with (or don’t deal with) and feel thankful.
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Exactly that! Again, we’re lucky that despite the bickering the girls really love each other. We have friends who’s kids literally beat the sh!t out of each other all day long! That must be exhausting.
He will remain so, quite possibly until he’s 4 or 5. Certainly that’s our experience; he pretty much ruined a holiday two years ago when he was 4. He was an utter A-hole that 11 days 
Something to do with very high Testosterone surges at that age (proportionate to their size). Once he’d been at school for a year, he really calmed down.
Daughters seem much easier by comparison; the fun there comes with adolescence and the teenage years! We are fast approaching that. It would appear that girls can be much worse to each other than boys at that age; SM makes it even worse.
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Do we need to spin off to a “parenting” thread?! 
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When you’re a parent, your whole house is a pain cave. 
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I can confirm that girls tend to get worse from 11 onwards, my daughter describes it as a total bitchfest that starts in the last year of primary school and carries over into secondary as they fight for dominance. She personally cannot be arsed with it but there is always someone in tears in her class due to on going issues with the others.
My 16 year old son was totally oblivious to most things going on around him, his big issue is that his mate has a sort of bromance with him and is jealous if he spends more time with his girlfriend than him.
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This is a useful reminder why I didn’t have any.
Just hope I don’t need a carer in a few years 
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I hide in my pain cave to escape from the parenting issues.
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Yeah, our daughter is Yr 6; we have to pick her Secondary school this week! She’s at a village school, so small mixed cohort. There are only four Yr 6 girls, and they are all very different, not natural fits, but are forced to try and be friends. At least at Big school she will have more choice about who she is friends with 
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I agree that moving to secondary school should broaden their opportunities to mix with others. All of the kids ended up at the same local secondary school, as it is the best In the area and the default option for us. Unfortunately there will alway be those who are concerned with the best handbag/phone or monobrow boyfriend and who will always make someone else’s life hell
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This is my major worry about the twins’ new school when we move.
In their year at the current school (Yr 2) there are 66 kids split over 2 classes. In the new school there are 60 kids in the whole school!
It looks like the kids from our Primary school will be spread out amongst 3, or potentially 4 secondary schools!