I already know this is the age I’ll miss most because it’s the one I’ve enjoyed most in the moment.
This is the age when they’re old enough to have personality and be reasonably independent, but still young enough to love me . Unlike ‘tweens, teens, threenagers, and terrible twos, there’s no name associated with this era, so I just call it what it is: The Golden Age Of Parenting.
I’ve got cute videos of the hilarious faces my kids made when they ate peas for the first time or the night we thought the three-year-old said “Fuck carrots!” at dinner. But six-to-eight is the age when my kids got legitimatelyWhen my eight-year-old looked at me after watching his brother’s basketball team miss ten consecutive shots and said, “Stormtroopers,” I knew we’d entered a new realm of personality.
Another reason I love six-to-eight is how much less they need me for the minutiae of day-to-day life. Tying the shoes, wiping the asses, zipping the jackets, shoving their heads into neck holes of shirts–are all tasks they can competently. It might take 20 minutes longer than the average adult, but they get it done. They can make their own fun, read their own books, find their own shows on Netflix.
Sure, they get bored from time to time, get in fights, scrape their knees, lose their water bottles, or can’t find their shoes. But no one is going to starve, sit in their own filth, fall to their death down the staircase, or panic when I leave the room. It’s hard to “make time for” when you’re bringing the bouncy seat into the bathroom so your six-month-old can maintain eye contact with you while you sit on the toilet.
I’m sure I’ll love whoever he becomes and find joy even in parts of the process I don’t love as much. But I’ll always miss him and his brother the way they are now, in this fleeting but forever-golden age, when we laughed more, showed love willingly, and needed each other just enough.
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