And how do I make it stop?!
Every single BASTARDING night we have this!
They're 4 & 6, bedtime has always been a nightmare, particularly the 6 year old. In the past I've been known to still be sitting on his bedroom floor at 2am (from 7pm) sometimes with him still awake.
The 4 year old has on the whole been pretty good, but then of course started copying her brother.
Things got better for a while, then within the last 12/18 months or so we've been on a downward spiral and I'm about at breaking point.
They go to bed fine, 4 year old goes first; story, milk, kisses, goodnight. Then the same for the 6 year old, all lovely.
Then it begins.
Up, down, in and out of each other's bedrooms, shouting down the stairs oh God the shouting down the stairs - "they need water they need a wee they need a poo they need their in-haler they need a teddy they need a different teddy DS is shouting DD is shouting" and on and on and on...
But the worst part is - they need a response!
So it's "I'm going to the toilet!...Mum! I'm going to the toilet! Muuuuum I'm having a wee! Muuuuum! Mum! Mum! Mum!"
WHY!?!?!?! Just go to the fucking toilet!!!!! No-one cares!!!!!!!!!
We have a new baby and I'm constantly waking him up just shouting "shush" up the stairs! It is a fucking joke!!
I am seriously at the end of my tether and by about 9:20 tonight I was half way out of the door!
Someone please help me?!!
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NoCapes · 08/02/2016 21:45
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