For parents, the terrible twos are a psychological preview of puberty.... At the age of two or three, children eat only bananas and refuse to get a haircut. Ten years later, they eat only bananas and refuse to get a haircut.
ATTRIBUTION:
Carin Rubenstein (20th century), U.S. writer and social psychologist. The Trying, Tedious, Treacherous, Truly Terrible 2s, Working Mother (February 1988).