How has your dc been 'traumatised' this week end?

[Snowymcsnowsony]

Ds 17 managed to drag himself out of bed and off his xbox today to meet a sibling for a socially distanced walk..
Got half way and a seagull shit on his coat!
He came home and got changed!!
Now proclaiming he knew walking was bad for you!!

@badlydrawnbear

DC1 is 9 and has to do a 2 minute presentation for school work. She only has to present it to me so I can record it and upload it to send to her teacher . The tears and tantrums that ensued were hugely traumatic for all of us. Also, we can’t reverse lockdown so non-essential shops are open so I can buy a specific item for her World Book Day costume. When I explained this to her she asked if her Dad could get it for her like I was just saying this to be mean, then announced that she now can’t dress up at all and sulked. I washed their hair. This is the most traumatic point of the week every week.

Oh yes the ordeal of hair washing. The only thing worse for all of us is cutting ds's toe nails

My toddler just had the worst evening ever because he wasnt home for his usual bedtime of 6pm. (He HATES staying up later than 6pm.) So in turn I also had the worst weekend ever.

I didn’t ‘do anything’ with my DC this weekend, didn’t take them anywhere exciting, let them see anyone or relieve their lockdown boredom... I am the worst.

Ds (7) is furious because deapite him watching a billionty YouTube videos on reptiles and other exotic pets, I won't tell 16 year old dd she has to go to uni now so he can have her room to keep snakes/lizards in. Also I won't buy him a snake, now, or a lizard or a parrot even though he has creates room in his bedroom by cleating his lego models off his kalax unit.

Dd is raging because she has to go to school tomorrow for a covid test. She wants to go at 8.30am and wants me to take her. I've said no because I have online lectures all day tomorrow from 10am and still need to do a bit of prep, plus I do any housework before lessons plus it means dragging ds out of bed earlier than what he's been getting up at and getting him to get dressed etc. Have offered to take her at 3pm instead but apparently that's not goos because she doesn't fancy online lessons all day followed by a covid test. Walking up is obviously out of the question despite the fact she walks to and from school normally.

Yesterday I was the worst mother in the whole world because I suggested to tween dd that the homework the teacher had set wasn't optional.

I took dd (17) to a friends stables to bag up some pony poo for the garden, I made her hold bags open whilst I shovelled the poo in, a bit of poo got on her hand and she was mortified, she said she’s never going poo shovelling again 😐😐😐, I don’t think she’s my daughter, switched at birth, I spent my teen years at stables covered in pony poo.

DS is continuously annoyed at having to do any handwriting for English school work. He wants to be a youtuber when he grows up and I'm trying to convince him that even youtubers need to write by hand sometimes.

Further meltdowns over the World Book Day costume. She has decided she will wear one of my tops as part of her costume. I couldn't be bothered to argue at this point. I probably would have sold half my clothes to the devil if it meant she would stop shouting and crying about not having a costume.

My ds went for an MRI scan for tinnitus type issue and they bombarded his ears with high-pitched sounds for 15 mins which he thinks was just the scanner working

It was @Bearnecessity, that’s what scanners do! You do get earplugs or earphones to drown the noise out but sadly they’re not 100% effective, so it can be a bit of an ordeal for people suffering from tinnitus.

DS 13 playstation broke, it was the end of the world.

[quote Tillytrotterisarotter]@Tiktokersmiracle my dd did the same. Insisted she would only come to mine and her dads wedding dressed as a dinosaur and defo not in a dress. She was just being awkward and did eventually wear a dress of her choosing and even got her hair curled on the day. She is a massive tomboy so this was huge for her. Good luck[/quote]
Mine is 14. They're non-binary. Total phase obviously but I think there's worse they could be doing.
They hate anything girly. But they've been told do it or else now.

@Tiktokersmiracle mine is 11 so not teeny tiny either. Although she isn't non binary she isn't girly either. She got mistaken for a boy last week due to her clothing. I agree though id rather have this than some other phases.