Does being a parent get easier as the child gets older?

My son is driving me crazy and he's only 3. Does it get easier or harder? Being a parent is and has given me such an honest outlook about my life and has really opened up good and bad things Ive discovered about myself as a person. I'm wondering if anyone else can offer me words of wisdom.Does being a parent get easier as the child gets older?
It does get easier. They say the terrible twos are the worst but I did not like three. All three of mine were worse at this age. They need consistent discipline. They need to know the rules and they need to be the same each time. You cannot let them get out of control or you will never gain it. Schedules help sometimes. Just remember he is learning and he is looking to you for guidance Does being a parent get easier as the child gets older?
I agree, it doesn't get easier, it gets different. Every age is a stage and it moves on to the next.





I totally agree with you on how it opens up a whole different part of you and you really begin to reflect on who you are as a person and your perceptions of the world. I have done so much soul searching and have been working to resolve past issues since I have become a parent. I also think parenthood forces you to examine your own childhood and the parents you had.





I try really hard to appreciate every moment with my kids and think about how it will be in 5-10-15 years. I know when my 4 year old wants to explain to me in minute detail, the episode of Calliou she was watching, it is important to her. Even though I may have a bunch of dishes or dinner to get ready or a thousand other things to do, I try to think at that moment that someday she will hold her thoughts from me. Someday I will get a mumbled 'nothing' when I ask her what she is thinking. Someday I won' t even know where she is exactly in the world. And I try to tune into the moment and hold it so I can think back someday to the time when I was the single most important element in her life.
Being a parent will always have good times and bad. It will always be filled with lots of testing from our children. Infants are hard because you don't know what they want, then you hit the terrible twos and toddler years, next comes school-age where they are starting to think they know it all and are bigger than they really are. Preteens hits and they think they are little adults and will try your patience. They get to be teens and really think they should get to make the decisions themselves and don't want to listen to what you have to say and everything is ';unfair'; to them if they aren't getting what they want. Then they grow up to be adults and you realize how much time has gone by and find yourself thinking about them when they were little and before you know it you might just be a grandparent. My mom said it never gets really easy but that you just adjust and learn as you grow and your children grow but they will always be testing you.
It gets harder because you have to deal with other people and their children. Other people are very competitive and try to top you with their children's accomplishments. In schooll there are also kids who are ';in'; and kids who are ';out.'; It's the social stress that's complicated. Then there's the homework and the after school activities. I basically work a 12-16 hour days with my kids.
I think the kind of parenting changes, but stays the same amount of work. Babies and toddlers need more things done for them, but not a whole lot of moral guidance. Tweens and teens need a lot more guidance and emotional support, but not as much day to day care. 2 and 3 year olds are famous for being testers, so try not to pull your hair out too much an think of the good times you have with your son.
I would say it gets different. Children develop and understand things better therefor it becomes easier to teach them. The best advice I can give is to set limits and do the best you can to stick to them. And of course a close bond with your child is always important. Limits that stay fairly constant help children learn and behave.
Oh heavens, age 3 is the easiest time there is! Just wait until the teen years, then you really will think you are going to go crazy! Just keep loving your child. I think as long as they know you will love them no matter what everything works out in the end. At least I hope so, my daughter is 16 and driving us nuts. Isn't there somewhere you can send them when they are about 12 and pick them up later when they've finally grown a brain? LOL Keep your sense of humor, you will need it later!
NO. It is not supposed to. Ask your parents. You are still a lot of work as are we all. Keep trying, loving, playing and enjoying. you will find peaceful moments. but it never gets easier. All kids drive their parents crazy, it's normal. Remember, HE LOVES YOU. You are HIS parent.
No. It gets harder and harder.





And more expensive.





Enjoy motherhood always, but especially when the kids are young.
It gets alot easier when the child starts to udnerstand things. around age 4-5 it gets definitely well. I have a 16yo son, 14yo daughter and 13yo daughter. We are like friends now.
it does not have any diffrence.
No
easier of course. have fun with him.be4 u no it, he'll be 10