Laundry, tidying, feeding, nappy change, naughy step AND REPEAT!!

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This is what my life seems to consists of at the moment with a 2 and half year old and one year old. As well as all the mundane stuff, my toddler seems to relish pushing over his sister at any given moment and she is teething badly and constantly wanting to be held or grizzling, so I am mostly doing all of the above tasks with her in my arms! Does it get easier? I'm sure it does, but please (PLEASE!) can someone just humour me. Thank you.

am in pretty much the same boat so thought I'd come and offer and wait for someone to come along with good news. I just keep looking forward to some (possibly mythical) time when they'll sit happily and colour / play board games / do puzzles for hours and I can get stuff done. Is it bad that I wake up happier on my work days than my home days at the mo?

Yes, it gets easier. Take them out - get them some air - give yourself a break. It can all be tidied up at bed time. You are doing the hard yards.

No it doesn't.

It's still laundry, tidying, feeding - and also, nagging, grounding, reprimanding, inwardly sighing, and eye rolling.

Love teens.

Yes there is light at the end of this tunnel. Honest!

I prescribe chocolate to go with the
Summer will make it all seem better (when it finally arrives)

Trixie, I'm thinking of seeking out some work days myself - just for a rest! I feel a bit like a hamster on a wheel at the moment. Maybe when summer comes, that'll help. Maybe when my daughter starts walking, that'll help too (not much chance of her progressing though with her brother gleefully knocking her down at any opportunity). I'm actually very happy but gee, this stage is hard work.
Would you like a biscuit while we wait?

But manic they go out and leave you alone worrying about them for hours too paralysed with fear to do anything

OP - it's fine. You will have better days soon - there is a halcyon period from about 5/6 when they can do their own seatbelts until about 11 when they learn to argue.

Oh manic, teens are wonderful!! Ha bloody ha.

I found groups helped - you get out the house so its not messed up for a while, toddler can make a mess and run energy off and be distracted. Then walk back can leave both DC quieter.

Plus you get out have a chat or just away from house work for a bit.

Also a baby sling could help. My eldest was a baby that would never be put down so I got good at doing alot with one hand but when I finally ditched the sling DC hated and that took ages to get on recommneded by a friend who it later transpired never use her version but used another type and found one I could just pop on and DC straight in- it made life so much easier.

it gets SO much easier when they are less physically reliant on you IMO. The back pain is reduced, you can leave the house without taking most of its contents with you, they develop a grain of sense. Give me 10 teenagers over 1 toddler any day!!

Mine never goes out. Dd mopes around in her dressing gown. I swear I'll have to surgically remove it to get it in the washer. And don't get me started on the state of her room.

Toddlers are fun. And you can amuse them with a cardboard box.