by Lindsey Gray

You're bound to have heard it over and over again.  Your children are driving you to distraction, there is a dark cloud of depression threatening to move in with you, and you'd rather watch re-runs of This Is Your Life than hear another tired old cliche. That's when someone pops up and says "it's just a phase".

The awful thing is, they're right.  We've had years of them with our first son, yes, singletons have their phases too, ....