To want to just be left the fuck alone??

Are the kids old enough to read? A big sign on the door saying
NO
ASK YOUR FATHER
IF YOU ARE THEIR FATHER, WORK IT OUT FOR YOURSELF

You need to read him the riot act or make shit loads of noise when he has his lie in.

Lock the door and put on noise-cancelling headphones.

DH and I each have a weekend lie in. Mine , is punctuated with screaming and crying and shouting. His is blissfully quiet. Sigh.

I genuinely don’t remember harassing my mum like this when I was a kid. But my kids do it to me all day long. It’s so horrible.

I don't remember dm being ill except when she had an operation and was in hospital.
But also when at home dm was normally busy with jobs most of the day, so if you did want to talk then you'd have been expected to help - which I quite often did so we could talk without my siblings interrupting.

Speak to your DH. Tell him in no uncertain terms you are not well and want to be left alone to sleep so can he please take the child out for three or fours hours

then go back to your room and shut the door.

Mine are aged 9 to 14 but it's always Mummy mummy mummy...

I find myself using the line "You have TWO parents - go find the other one".

Lunch time - it's me they ask what's for lunch. Or why we don't have whatever cereal that I don't even eat so why would I know it ran out.

Or have I seen whatever it is they've lost.

The ONLY time I get peace is when I agree to them having tablet time, and then once we're over the trauma of uncharged tablets etc... do I finally get left alone.

I was trying to plan an A Level lesson the other day which had lots of complicated maths, and I counted 19 interrupting in 45 minutes. DH was on his phone hiding in his man cave.

My children are grown up, but I feel the same as OP!

Pretend to be fast asleep

This

not just the children
their teachers and reception staff too

many got the very curt response of ‘what?
I’m abroad, working.
Have you tried the parent in the UK, who in listed as first contact in all their documents?’

I had to bite my tongue not to add ‘I know he has a penis but…’

I remember shouting “12 minutes! The Archers is 12 minutes long. Is it too much to ask to be left in peace for 12 minutes?” one day. They all looked at me in amazement. But reader, I listened to the Archers in peace that day.

I hope you get some time to yourself later op. It’s a very stressful feeling.

I am in awe!

can I have a copy of your book?

Mine do this.

I can't even have a cup of tea without them wanting me.

I'll be working in my study, DH will be on his phone in the lounge and they'll come and ask ME. Always.

I swear men have invisibility buttons.

Chair under the door handle for now, add a lock when you’re better. Tear your husband a new arsehole.

Mine are teens now so this might not work but I tell everyone I'm going to do a meditation so no interruptions please.

Your DH is a twat.

I also don’t remember bothering my mum the way my dc do (well used to). @largeredformeplease

I do a similar thing to @Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast if they come in the bedroom I ask them to get me something that’s downstairs, or set a task for them to do something for me. Eg get a glass of water or something. Stops them wanting to bother me.

I also don’t mind telling dc and dh to go away. If they don’t go away, I tell them if I don’t get rest I’m going to be horrible for the rest of the day because I’m tired, so it’s up to you?

I do tell dc off for disturbing me at times. I try to teach empathy but that’s not a quick solution.

Dh knows I mean business after a couple of times I have hit the roof in similar circumstances. I now get plenty of un disturbed rest. He knows it’s either that or I turn into Ursula.

Maybe you got told off strongly, rather than positive reinforcement, so that is why you didn’t disturb her.

YANBU. I tried to have a twenty minute lie down earlier and exited the room after five (noisy) minutes to find my son, three cats and a dog (the dog isn't even mine) waiting for me pressed against the bedroom door while my husband was dealing with the baby's explosive poonami in her room.

I hear you. I've got 3 kids. 4, if you count the husband!

’im going for a nap, when I wake up we’ll clean the house’ you’ll be left alone forever

It’s horrible.

I genuinely don’t remember harassing my mum like this when I was a kid. But my kids do it to me all day long. It’s so horrible.

They get loads of attention and positive reinforcement. It’s like they just can’t stand me having anything to myself, even if it’s just 20 minutes of peace.

Barricade the door closed. I may have done this in the past.

This is genius.

I developed a tactic for this. It was either that or throw shit at them. I can't hand on heart say I mean metaphorical shit tbh.

any time I was disturbed while ill, I gave the disturber a task to do. Preferably horrible. Always urgent.

You need to clean down the u-bend of the loo type for my husband, deep cleaning of bedroom for sons.

Came in again - did you do X? no? why? when will you? oh, you also need to do Y.

Pretty soon, whenever I said don't disturb me, I was left undisturbed!

It's chapter 2 of my FAFO book. Chapter 1 was You Interfere, You Volunteer.

Give them horrible or boring tasks and nag the fuck out of them every time they come back in. Or do the whole oh while you're in here, please do/check/pass me...

You'll be left alone for so long you'll start to worry the zombie apocalypse happened while you were napping.