To think that three dc and I can live peacefully and harmoniously together after school?

[Molehillmountain]

And if so how? I am finding it very hard...again. Dc are seven, four and nineteen months. Not a happy lot of campers after pick up-everyone's tired or needy or grumpy and I can't help everyone with what they need. Am I expecting too much?

Well, if you are, I am too.

I have a DD age 7 and a DS age 6 and it seems to be each ones mission to wind the other one up.

I now have a routine. My sensory seeking water loving DD goes straight to the bathroom and has a long shower. DS comes in to the living room and spends some time with me. Divide and conquer.

Not quite sure how to manage your three though, with two of them being younger than mine.

I feel that I am the fourth grumpy, tired child at the moment. This may be more than a little of the problem

Lol when you find the answer please let me know! My big 2 fight almost constantly and I have an 18 week old who wants to breast feed every 2 hours day and night

My 3 were always bickering and arguing with each other a few years ago. I used to want to go and hide when they started.
It does get better, mine can now be in the same room as each other without driving me crazy.
There is light at the end of the tunnel...even if it is a long tunnel!!

A very very very long dark dank tunnel skinny lmao

Try : food (bananas or cake or bread and stuff, cereal if you are desperate), drink (water or milk for them, tea/coffee for you), then TV or quiet play (colouring, sticking etc.). Let them go to seperate parts of the house if that is how they recharge best.

Good luck!

Family nap? All get a duvet and snugle on the sofa but o doubt thw 19mo will comply.

Thanks all! The last couple of days have been better-as much because I've been more able to cope than anything. I think I've been having monstrous pmt recently, and a snarly, tetchy mother means that small disputes are handled irrationally and badly. Trip to the docs I think. And more crafts with me in the middle accepting that all craft materials are food to dd2!