We spend the first two years teaching our kids to walk and talk. Then we spend the next 16 years telling them to sit down and shut up. Pretty wild when you think about it.
This is so accurate it hurts. We literally celebrate their first words and then spend years trying to get them to use their inside voice.
Perfect observation. And somewhere in between the talking and the 'sit down, shut up' phase, they get really good at arguing back.
This checks out. Lost my rocket on the roof trying to launch it in the backyard, and now I'm telling my son we can't even do that because someone's gotta keep it quiet for the neighbors.
Ha this is so true. My daughter is 18 months and I'm already dreading the day she can talk back to me. Right now when I say no she just cries but soon it'll be "but why dad" for everything.
The walk and talk thing is just nature's cruel joke on parents. You're like "please learn to communicate" and then once they do you're like "okay can we go back to the crying phase."
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And between teaching them to be independent and then having to set actual boundaries, man. With three kids I'm constantly saying no to stuff and feeling like the bad guy.