Parental Halftime?

I was talking to Myra Norton yesterday who has 2 kids under 4.

She asked about how my kids are doing and I said, "you know, they are in that stage where they are old enough that you don't have to watch them all the time and they generally can take care of themselves, but they still think I know what I am talking about.

I suppose, it's the halftime between the physical exhaustion of the early years and the mental/emotional exhaustion of the teenage years."

Agree/Disagree?