Kids

[Pipe Line]

Not quite proud dad moment, so figured I'd start a new thread. My daughter's "threenager" antics have ramped up quite a bit the last month. She turns 4 in April. After the text I just received from my wife, whose on Christmas Break, I am now convinced the threenager stage has actually just now started and didn't actually start when she turned 3 like I originally thought.


Paraphrasing, my daughter wanted cereal for break fast. Wife made her cereal. She then got pissed because there was milk on it, so my wife drained the milk out, she then got even more pissed because "the cereal is still kind of wet". Ho-lee-phuk


Am going to work from home this afternoon

 

[Baron Winnebago]

You don't truly become a parent until you've had a kid scream at you for 45 minutes because you tell them a "milk salad" probably isn't a good idea

 

[SolichFan1987]

I hear ya. My daughter is 2, and that scenario sounds quite familiar. My son is 5, and he was never quite like her haha.

Be firm, fight the good fight.

 

[SolichFan1987]

My daughter threw a massive tantrum at my parents place on Christmas because she refused to pick up the ornament she threw on the ground

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Not quite proud dad moment, so figured I'd start a new thread. My daughter's "threenager" antics have ramped up quite a bit the last month. She turns 4 in April. After the text I just received from my wife, whose on Christmas Break, I am now convinced the threenager stage has actually just now started and didn't actually start when she turned 3 like I originally thought.


Paraphrasing, my daughter wanted cereal for break fast. Wife made her cereal. She then got pissed because there was milk on it, so my wife drained the milk out, she then got even more pissed because "the cereal is still kind of wet". Ho-lee-phuk


Am going to work from home this afternoon

They all go through the phase. Lasts a lot longer if they get what they want and/or get tons of attention from the parents when they throw the antics.

IMO they need to hear "no" a lot with no further cajoling or debate beyond "because I said so," then a calm swat if they don't comply. It sucks at first while they learn the expectations, but makes things massively easier once they understand.

Godspeed.

 

[herbsinator]

My 3 year old is the total bane of my existence at the moment. But also reading her bedtime stories and putting her to bed is the best moment of my day everyday, so go figure.

 

[Scott Hall]

4 and 3 year olds are currently melting down because they want to go to Costco with mommy but don’t want to put their socks on or go potty before. Luckily the one who will be 2 in January is at daycare.
The milk/no milk cereal, syrup/no syrup with pancakes, and the ketchup/no ketchup with chicken nugs is very common. Always have to start with none.
4 year old is kind of moving past it but she’s also easily brought back in to it by her younger sisters.

 

[...TrueColors...]

I had it out with my 8 year old nephew on Christmas.

Slight backstory -

My life got quite interesting at the end of 2021 when my then wife started chemo and then decided she wanted a divorce. Then in February my brother was in a motorcycle accident in which the passenger on his bike was killed. Because he’d been drinking (I’m not going to talk too much about this as he did something wrong and has since made the changes in his life necessary) he was convicted of vehicular manslaughter and spent 10 months in jail.

So coming back to my nephew, I give him a little bit of a break because the last 18 months haven’t been easy for him. Regardless, he decided he wanted to argue with me about what he believed he should and shouldn’t be able to do. Like fly his new mini drone in the house.

He never understands that there are arguments it is predetermined he will be losing. But he kept going. He then told me he was going to call his mom and tell her that he was going to go back to her house. I handed him the phone and told him to call her and tell her why he wanted to leave.

He backed down real quick. I don’t negotiate with terrorists.

 

[cwessel76]

As a parent of a 10 and 12 year old this is my parenting philosophy:

 

[...TrueColors...]

As a parent of a 10 and 12 year old this is my parenting philosophy:

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A really good friend of mine has a kid who’s at UNO. He’s in flight school. He’s also in a frat.

So one day over the summer I was hanging out at their lake house and he had his frat bros over with him.

Apparently I was a hit with the frat bros. That might be a bit shameful of me to say.

I was added to their group chat. I have to come to grips daily with the idea that I’m a 35 year old man and I’m in a group chat with a bunch of frat bros called “The Meat Missles.” I was the first to point out that they misspelled “missiles.”

 

[Goskers07]

And after all the terrorism, they'll still ask you to snuggle them to sleep tonight.

 

[cwessel76]

And after all the terrorism, they'll still ask you to snuggle them to sleep tonight.

“Not today, Osama.”

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

Not quite proud dad moment, so figured I'd start a new thread. My daughter's "threenager" antics have ramped up quite a bit the last month. She turns 4 in April. After the text I just received from my wife, whose on Christmas Break, I am now convinced the threenager stage has actually just now started and didn't actually start when she turned 3 like I originally thought.


Paraphrasing, my daughter wanted cereal for break fast. Wife made her cereal. She then got pissed because there was milk on it, so my wife drained the milk out, she then got even more pissed because "the cereal is still kind of wet". Ho-lee-phuk


Am going to work from home this afternoon

Our older daughter has been a pleasure to watch grow up and become a successful, in our eyes, young lady. Daughter #2 was a bit of a handful but has turned out pretty good.

Threaten and follow through…or just kick her ass daily, mentally

 

[BillBra5ky]

 

[iruletheskool]

This doesn't happen all the time?

 

[Pipe Line]

And after all the terrorism, they'll still ask you to snuggle them to sleep tonight.

Still fighting the fight with both wife and daughter to get my daughter in her own bed.

 

[Pipe Line]

Our older daughter has been a pleasure to watch grow up and become a successful, in our eyes, young lady. Daughter #2 was a bit of a handful but has turned out pretty good.

Threaten and follow through…or just kick her ass daily, mentally

You could say I've acquired my dad voice the last year and a half or so. It works

 

[Goskers07]

Still fighting the fight with both wife and daughter to get my daughter in her own bed.

Good luck. We've got three now ages 8 months to 5 years and more often than not we wake up with all 3 crowded into bed.

 

[Huskerbuck85]

Not quite proud dad moment, so figured I'd start a new thread. My daughter's "threenager" antics have ramped up quite a bit the last month. She turns 4 in April. After the text I just received from my wife, whose on Christmas Break, I am now convinced the threenager stage has actually just now started and didn't actually start when she turned 3 like I originally thought.


Paraphrasing, my daughter wanted cereal for break fast. Wife made her cereal. She then got pissed because there was milk on it, so my wife drained the milk out, she then got even more pissed because "the cereal is still kind of wet". Ho-lee-phuk


Am going to work from home this afternoon

1. My 3 yr old doesn’t give me fits like that.

2. I would have asked her what she wants for breakfast and then if she wanted milk on it. I’d have let her get her own spoon (she’s proud of this).

3. What you described doesn’t sound that bad, a bit dramatic here.

4. I’m sure you all are great parents and your daughter is just being a woman! God bless

 

[Pipe Line]

Good luck. We've got three now ages 8 months to 5 years and more often than not we wake up with all 3 crowded into bed.

That's actually encouraging to hear, jokes aside. I seem to be in the minority in this particular parenting department. However, she's now too big for her changing table/crib attachment deal, and she is getting close to too big for her crib anyway, so she signs are creeping up on mama for that big girl bed.