Parenting cannot be put on a scale to be measured every few years. It's not about Parenting 'getting easier' or 'getting harder', it's about you learning to sail through the easy and the hard bit of parenting every year. And trust us with our parenting guide, you will, eventually.

Does being a parent ever get easier?

And when that happens with your last kid, you realize that parenting actually DOES get easier. It's still hard in emotional ways, but logistically, there is a definitive shift at some point. For me, that shift occurred when our youngest child turned six.

What age is the hardest to parent?

A recent survey showed that parents of 12- to 14-year-old teens had a harder time than parents of toddlers, elementary school children, high school children, and adult children. From toddler tantrums to teen angst, parenting children at any age can be tough.