To ask for tips from mums of 3 or more boys?

[RosieLig]

Because some days I'm just so fed up! I need practical tips and advice.

They are 11,8 and 7 and get on very well most of the time,sometimes too well as they just hype each other up! It's just the boundless running around, wrestling, shouting, playing with weapons ( yes maybe I should confiscate them!) and not listening or doing anything helpful without being asked hundreds of times. My eldest was tested for ADHD and whilst he doesn't tick all the boxes he definitely has some of the traits and is very bouncy and excitable.

I just feel worn down with if. Of course I love them but I feel quite a grumpy mummy at the moment. The weather and not being able to get them outside so much hasn't helped this holiday.

I need some positive advice from others please!

Thanks .

for Lillyxxx

The worst place to take a boy is to someone else's living room in a household where there has only ever been girls!
They just look like a dinosaur with all the shouting, running and wrestling! I've got one of each x

I found he needs hard physical exercise else he just bounces off the walls, shouts and wallops everything - ha ha

YYYYYYYYYYY Valdeeves. There was not enough gin in the entire world to help me recover from that

Do you live in a rural or urban area? If rural, get them to walk twice a day - like you would with a dog. Better still, if you know someone with a dog, ask if your elder boy(s) could walk the dog after school and at weekends.

Do not let them play with electronic toys more than an hour each a day. Any more can make them moody and pent up energy.

Get annual tickets to 2 outdoor activity areas. Use them regularly. We have 1 for an arboretum and 1 for a reservoir.

Get them to join weekend clubs - football, rugby, cricket. This wears them out in the morning so the afternoons are not as bad. Still go for a walk in the afternoon though.

If they get enough energy let off outdoors you can then try some more sedate activities such as hammer beads, lego etc. My boys love cooking, but this is a treat for the 1 boy who is best behave. I just can't cook with more than 1 boy at a time.

Hope this helps.

I am also on 100 g of Sertraline a day. This helps enormously!

I hav 3 ds' and dss, 11, 9, 8 and coming up 6.
drive me mad on days cooped up inside.
get them out, run off all that energy.
today were off on a bike ride we could stay in and shove a hand held in there hands for a few hour, that shuts them up but fresh air much better.

Very sorry Rosie I really didn't mean to hijack your post. I really hope all the advice was helpful.
Thank you to everybody else for your lovely comments and sympathy. Hug your babies very very tightly.

Well.

We are just back from 2 hours at the local park.
We all had to take our trousers off at the backdoor because we were so muddy .
Even moody DS2(9) has cheered up .

The walk your children like dogs clearly works, shame that this is the first time in 5 days I have managed to get them outside properly (taking the rubbish out does not count).

Bowling tomorrow, methinks, as the weather forecast is atrocious here .

My biggest tip is regular meal times. My 3 boys are a nightmare when they are hungry.

meal times like clockwork
team sports
scouting organisation
reward charts

all invaluable in our house (3 boys twins aged 8 and a just turned 7 yr old)

Swimming is also great.... REALLY wears them out.

Organise walks/outside play with other families (preferably with boys also) and then they can all entertain each other and you have somebody else chat to and realise that boys are all the same!

Lily
But all boys are not the same. My 3 are alll different and I'm even of the enegy many - but not all - of the other posters are reporting.

Spmetimes I've wished that mine were more like that. Though I luves emas they are too.