Help!!! My son has been possessed by a three year old!!!!

[janradder]

Which is probably because he's three.  Let me tell you, anyone who calls two terrible has no experience whatsoever with the younger preschool set known as the three year old.  If you see one lurking on the street, in your yard or home, beware -- the three year old is considered to be incredibly dangerous, extremely illogical and full of attitude.  Consider yourself warned.

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[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, 3 is so much worse than 2.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I know. What seems like many years ago now, when Arie was about to turn three we were enrolled in an ECFE class. Another parent there had a two year old and a four, almost five year old. She said how much she was really starting to like her oldest now that he was older. She said, it's almost like he's becoming human again.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Nailed it. I often tell Twinkie that the only reason why she survived past 3 was because she turned 4. Now Fruitpie is 3--and my nerves are shot.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Stephen J. Gould had a theory that infant/young animals had evolved over the ages to look "cute" to encourage their parents to take care of them. This would be a natural defense for the young to combat the long periods of unpleasantness involved in raising them. I often think to myself when he's at his most unpleasant that Éiden is damn lucky he's so cute with his round belly and curly hair.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, we know about this. The spouse and I frequently say "they're cute so we don't kill them."

Unfortunately, this always doesn't work, which is why I have a hard time with the news.

[timalyne.livejournal.com]

Three is scary. Chloe is a whole new kid now that she's a "four-girl" as she calls it. Of course, she still throws me curveballs on a daily basis, but at least she's more responsive and a tad less impulsive.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

The thing that gets to me most, I think, is the sheer inability to reason or use logic with a three year old. I'd make just as much headway arguing with the wall.

[sarahgoss.livejournal.com]

I am terrified. Are you *sure* one-and-a-half isn't the hardest age? 'Cause that's what I was hoping, see. They get MORE illogical than the current manifestation?-- biting the wall while screaming, "Don't bite the wall!" at the top of her lungs? For no apparent reason?

[janradder.livejournal.com]

In a couple years you'll be looking back at that as a pleasant, cherished memory wishing she'd do it again instead of whatever new atrocity she's schemed up to inflict upon you.

[st-writes.livejournal.com]

Beforehand you think the twos are supposed to be the worst, but then you learn the awful truth ... However everyone says that if the three-year-old makes it to four, then things get better. I'm not so sure.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Arie has definitely gotten better -- slowly but surely, but definitely better.