<prompt> Human: Im blessed with a 3 year old and a 6 month old and love them to death. I randomly quip to my coworkers about how expensive they are though. It never fails they respond with wait until they are whatever age their kids are. It seems like the egoneed to whine taking over. Yes I get it when they are teenagers they will want cell phones and cars and when they graduate high school hopefully they will go to college. However right now we are saving for their college while paying for 2 kids in daycare and all the extra stuff that comes infantstoddlers. When I was 16 I had to work to buy my own car, I am planning to do a matching savings plan for my kids to teach them to save and buy their own toys. But even if I cave and buy them cars we spend 10kchildyear on daycare! They will not get a 10k car from me to start out with! For college well have a reasonable amount saved after 18 years of planningsaving,if they want to go to a more expensive school than that will yield its on them. Tough love, but it leads to better decisions IMHO. And my coworkers just say Im all talk when I say these things.This all makes me very interested, egos aside: what do you think was the most expensive age for your children?  <response>: Daycare is fucking expensive. Were going to be paying nearly 2,500 a month for our three once our newborn goes to daycare. Teens might eat a lot, but not 2,500 of food each month. Once they hit school, they get cheaper. 