Which phase of parenting do you class as the most difficult, and which is the easiest? And why?

Question

a) baby stage (0 - 12 months)

b) toddler stage (1 year - 3 years)

c) kid stage (4 years - 10 / 11 / 12 years)

d) teenage stage (11 - 18 years)

Please note, that you probably have to have raised some teenagers in order to be able to answer this question well.

Cheers!

Answer 1

babies are easy

toddlers are a pain in the neck

kids are awkward

teenagers are great

Answer 2

pre teen. no f**t jokes, past crying over everything and not much attitude

Answer 3

easiest  - baby stage  (she was a really easy going baby never cried much and slept well early on.)

most difficult - kid stage ( she wanted to be a teen and run around with her friends but wasn't old enough. Lots of tears and fights during those years 7 to 11 was rough.)

Answer 4

Personally toddler stage was hard for me...baby bit just breezed by. But the tantrums etc were too much.

Currently at the "kid stage" which isnt too bad actually :) - for now!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

teens suck lol....actually p*****n has been the worse

mom of

jen 25yr

mary23yr

sammi18 yr

maston15yr

buddy14yr

delany10yr

drake9yrold

and gramma to Abby1yr old

Answer 6

Hi,

You have forgotten to mention the minus age of a child. Minus age means the period for which the baby is in the womb.

By the 7th month of pregnancy the baby has developed his/her personality as an unique having many positive and negative traits. Apart from these inherent traits the baby is MOST RECEPTIVE to suggestions received at this time.

The parent should be on their toe at this peak time to develop their baby in all respect. May it be emotional stability, the thinking with wisdom, the healthy body , etc etc.

As soon as the baby is born the receptivity starts reducing . Up to the age of 5 years the brain is fully developed by and large and by the age of 7 years the brain development stops considerably.

The person is what his/her brain has got upto the age of 7 years most.

Hence in your given format parenting is most difficult in first stage of 0-12 months.

Though it will look like that, but at higher level of mind/brain  it is very important to have good parenting at start.

Wish you happy parenting.

Answer 7

The easiest part of parenting is the pregnancy.  The hardest part is everything after the birth! Every stage is difficult (and rewarding) for different reasons but even when you're children are adults, as one of mine now is, you never stop worrying about them, you just worry about different things.

Answer 8

I don't have teens, and I expect that's probably the hardest.

But I have kids through the "kid stage."  The person who said that pregnancy was the easiest didn't have my pregnancies, throwing up 8-10 times a day every day for 7 months, having to test blood 4 or more times a day, injecting insulin twice a day, routinely suffering from hypoglycemia and nearly passing out (once actually passing out), and exhausted from anemia (all with other kids to take care of).  I'd say that for me, after pregnancy, everything else was far better.

Second worst was the baby stage, because for me nothing is easy if you don't get enough sleep.

After that, it's been great.