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My children are constant repeaters too! Man oh man sometimes I want to yank my hair out. The thing I hate the MOST is when I tell them to clean something up and they completely ignore me OR when I ask my 5 yo to please get dressed for school and I come back 5 minutes later and she is still standing there in her towel...doesn't even have panties on. I will have her clothes sitting on the bed so it isn't that she doesn't know what to wear...it is that she gets side tracked....AHHH!
The other day, I was in cleaning their room with them when I realized...I was the ONLY one cleaning. I completely lost it! They were both making messes as fast as I cleaned them. When I told them I was done cleaning and I was coming back in 5 minutes, whatever was on the floor was going in the garbage, my dd then persisted to say, "that's not fair that I have to do this all on my own". AHHHHHH!! I was so mad. I always tell them, "I didn't make the mess but I am helping clean it. I will NOT do it alone, but you can if you don't help. Do you have to clean my mess in my room?" My dd one time said, "Well no mom cause your room is never dirty". I wanted to laugh and cry and yell all at once. I was like, "yes, that is because I clean up after myself and sometimes your dad". She was like, "oh, well do that to my room too". LOL
When I get really iratated, I have started to do this counting thing. I just count in my mind and ask why I am iratated. If I can see why, I then talk to the girls about it. If I can't see a reason other than them just being children, I have to stop myself and realize that if they were adults adn acting like adults, I would be sad not to have my little girls. I don't know if any of this will help. Really, most of the time I am in the same boat as you! It can be really hard at times being a mom...I admire my mom more and more every day!
(Now I have to go and clean a bedroom - with help of course :roll: ) |
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Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:39 pm |
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