When will I stop sounding like a stuck FARKING record?!

[Gossipmonster]

Please tidy your room

Please put your plates in the dishwasher

Please clear the table

Please wipe the table

Please put the empty loo roll in the bin

Please replace loo roll

Please fucking listen to me kids just once?!

ARGHHHHHHH!

Ditto!

Ditto!

If DH would just adhere to the above rules I would be happy never mind DS

And then they sigh and roll their eyes like you are some kind of Nazi .

I was just thinking the same thing.

I am getting fed up with the sound of my own sodding voice

Yup, bored listening to myself so no wonder they are too!

I hate the repetition too. Me and DH are currently trialling this book with initial good results (early days yet!)

I'm the same with a few more thrown in.

Please put your socks on ds1.

Stop messing and brush your teeth.

Dd1 stop prancing around in tights and get dressed.

Dd2 get a move on you'll be late for school.

Ds2 stop emptying the cupboards.

Ds2 stop messing with the washing machine.

Dd1 please get your homework done.

Ds1, dd1, dd2 stop messing and go to bed.

I get fed up of repeating every one of these at least a dozen times a day. I'm sick of hearing my own voice.

I think we can stop when they leave home.
What's the average home leaving age...just out of interest ?

When they go to uni ! Then ..... They can make as much mess as they like until they realise they have to clean it up too. And we start moaning that we miss them, the house is quiet and too tidy. But till then it's just the same here with me saying the same old things very day one hundred times

Here's another one: 'No, not later - NOW!'

I love the marble jar idea ! Maybe I will try it with my DH . Thank TheDrugs , top tip

Boy are you lot in for a shock! When they get older it's

..where is your phone?
..why didn't you answer your phone?
..what happened to the money I gave you yesterday?
..what time will you be in?

ARYAOFHOUSESNARK

My DC's are 34 and 33 and STILL live at home and they are hoarders. My house is a tip even though my DH and I are retired and do all the house work and I have been de cluttering since 2008 . I say if my DH and I lived here on our own the house would be clean and TIDY, CAN'T EVEN BLAME THE PETS AS THEY ALL LIVE OUTSIDE. My DC's didn't even go to Uni !

You deserve a Medal I think. Wow what amazing parents you must be

I never understood (as a child ) why all the grown ups said no elbows on the table when they all had their elbows on the table

I have this problem with my brother...
My response does some times take more effort, than reminding him and/or just doing it, but things are getting better.

Put the ironing board on the roof of his car after he left it out again.

Left his washing in the garden, getting wet then dry then wet x loads, then it fell on the floor and got muddy, still left it.

Chuck empty loo rolls and containers from the bathroom, which he has finished with onto his bed, hid the loo roll.

When he left washing up, next to the EMPTY dishwasher, carried it up stairs and left in his room.

Im sure there is more!

He's learning slowly, I see it as my duty to him and his future partner...

No offence but I'm too busy (cba) for marbles, jars, in's and out's as reward, punishments etc.
I just expect instructions carried out, and nobody move until it's done. I will call whomever back to pick up towels off floor, flush toilet, tidy plates away. I'm a mother not a fecking slave!

Yes!

Pfb is 23. Not stopped yet.

You should hear me this morning trying to get yongest to get out or bed
Come one, time to get up
Ten min later.... Wakey wakey ( much louder)

Dad tries.... Uppey timeeeeee (usually annoyed her enough to wake up )

Me.. You'll be late

Ten min later come one now get out of bed

Teenagers !

Must be a right of passage for being a parent that no one tells you about!
Because I'm a record every frigging day and I'm sick of my own voice!