• Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I dunno, the ‘kid is intelligent enough to go to the fridge and get food themselves’ and ‘kid no longer craps their pants’ is a hell of an upgrade. I haven’t made it to a point where things are harder than it was before either of those things.

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        5 months ago

        Yeah, at some point it should get easier, but if you have a troubling teen, again, things are challenging in a different way to managing tantrums in a toddler.

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        5 months ago

        to be fair to you, I adapt a lot , some well, some not well, but adapting to the constant resistence and fighting is something I haven’t adapted to yet. It’s one thing to change a nappy, it’s another to change a nappy attached to a screaming, squirming child