They are so frustrating! (light-hearted)
An example, I asked them this morning what they wanted to do, they said nothing. I said we could go to a big park, with a big slide and a sand pit etc. Ds1 (5yo) said he didn't want to go to a new park, he wanted to go to the park near our house (really rubbish one that we go to all the time and that he complains in that he is bored).
I told him that going to a new park would be fun. He cried and screamed, stamping his feet and all that shit.
In the end, we went to a park near us, but not the one either of us had in mind.
We have stuff like this happen all the time. Every time I say something, before I have a chance to fully reply (like "no, you can't have anything to eat..............but I have ice-cream for after dinner") the pair of them will stamp their feet and whinge and scream and it's driving me bonkers.
I don't ever remember being like that to my parents, don't think I'd have dared.
I'm not saying I want to install fear into my children, but I really don't know how to handle it all sometimes.
They shout, they argue, they talk back, the younger one constantly whines (but he gets that tone of voice from his dad)
Ggggggrrrrrrrrrrr
I know this is a phase, and I'll miss it etc but need to just get it off my chest.
What the hell am I doing wrong?
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Nothing I ever do with/for my dc's is ever good enough (little melodramatic there)
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SilveryMoon · 12/05/2013 20:34
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