to think being a stay at home mother of babies and toddlers is an absolute bloody dodfle.

[StillIRise]

compared to being a full time working (shit shifts) mother of stroppy, hormonal, expensive, complicated teenagers.

I am much more bone achingly knackered now than I was then, after a day of playdough and music group, with an afternoon nap or quite hour in front of a disney dvd.

The days when i could do tea, bath, story and bed by 6.30pm.

Compared to 8 hours on my feet, bit stressy, get in, feed 3 different times, drop off, pick up, nag about homework, worry about dodgy friends, drugs and unprotected sex.

U?

I think not.

Observation based on this thread - people who are sleep deprived do not do "light hearted". They are very angry and easily riled

i am sleep deprived :o it's lasted 13 years

Everyone is terribly trigger happy these days on AIBU, aren't they?

I mean they always were but recently it's got a bit daft.

RatherBeACyborg - I seem to recall thinking the same. And I may have slightly overplayed mastitis once in order to get a bit of shut-eye.

Of course, once your children are all grown up and would happily sleep through, sometimes through the day and night when they are 16/17, you find you are woken up by 7.00 every morning anyway as you need to pee.

7am, you lucky cow :o it's more like midnight for me these days
iam falling to pieces :(

I know that my mother never slept until she heard me stumbling through the doors in the early hours.

I'm looking forward to that

I hum in lifts and in the grocery store . I'm 36.

I have a downstairs bathroom too

have suggested to dh he makes a comode like my gran did in the old days
wooden chair, seat out, toilet seat secured on top, bucket underneath

he was not happy

...and I wake up to pee at 10:30. (Pm).

but is your wc facility upstairs???

And dont' forget when the kids are really grown up and off your hands, the doddery parents need looking after....

Owl you need one of thise big china potd for under the bed. Sexxxeeeeeeee

Yeah...Ok. You win .

I have three toilets... A downstairs one, one in middle floor ( teens) and mine on third floor...

Teens have the middle floor of the house to themselves you see, that's the secret, section everybody off....

This is a light hearted thread!
I hope things get better for you and thank you, StillIrise, for the heads up!

Pagwatch

DS1 is 9 and starting to get stroppy and seems to be unable to go more than 3 nano seconds without demanding food. If you are missing teenagers I can send you him for a couple of years.

I had the "everyone has phone/ipad/generous parents" comment yesterday.

I'm in my 40's so hopefully the menopause will allow me to forget all the demands my kids make with a vague "I don't remember you saying that my dear, it must be my hormones" and then wander off muttering to myself.

It all depends on the person. Some people find it easy others don't. The thing I didn't like is the constant in and out of the house. Out to school, back again. Out to playschool. Back again. Out again to pick up from playschool, Back. Pick up from school. It exhausts me even thinking about it! And that's if you didn't go anywhere else.

(mother of pre-schooler not wanting to hear that teenage DCs wont be putting the kettle on for me when I get in from work , at least I HOPE they won't be piddling on the carpet!)

This thread has just made sure I won't forget to ring the family planning clinic tomorrow for an appointment to get a coil fitted.

I must be doing something wrong, cos I find my teenage kids a dream compared to my two as toddlers.

Crap, I've just lost the 'my life is harder than yours' competition.

Oh well.

I have a toddler and a teenager and one in the middle. I'm also pg and beginning to feel like I must be mad.

Toddlers and teens both have their moments of being bloody awful, however I can walk out the door and leave the teenager to it when I've had enough!

No, no, no. Surely it can't be worse than toddlers? Noooooooo. I won't have it. No.