threenager

plural threenagers

1. A rebellious and strong-willed three-year-old.

   There is something disgusting about pretending your child is older than his actual age. Your toddler isn't a teen or a fucking threenager.

   2018, Jim Florentine, Everybody Is Awful: (Except You!), →ISBN

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   All of these are simply weapons in the battle with threenagers — not for control over clothing choices but for our children’s character and soul and the adults they will become.

   2016 August 17, Lindsey M. Roberts, “Navigating the choppy waters of life with a ‘threenager’”, in Washington Post

   It was my inability to deal with my firstborn behaving like a 'threenager' that led to me quitting a successful career as a radio announcer and going to university for nearly a decade to learn how to dad better.

   2018, Justin Coulson, 10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know, →ISBN

   Whatever motherhood might look like for you through pregnancy, surrogacy, fostering, adopting, or mentoring, through infancy, toddlerhood, threenagers, and teenagers, it is all a process of letting go.

   2018, Jamie Sumner, Unbound: Finding Freedom from Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood, →ISBN