To ask what your children do that annoys you the most?

[Iloveanimals]

Sorry but I've just had a bad day with ds
He wouldn't listen to instructions properly, kept running off in front when I told him not to, argued back and finally hurt himself because he was acting silly.
Also he's so flamin fussy at meal times that they often turn into a disaster
Cheer me up and make me feel like I'm not alone . What do yours do to get your back up?

[Bibbitybobbitybollocks]

All of the above. Aged between 13 -1.5 yrs.
I do a lot of deep breathing 😑

[Rufus27]

Taking a big mouthful of food from his mouth, using his hand to remove it, inspect it and then smother it over himself/chair. I know he's only a year old, but it drives me nuts! (Especially as he seems to grin as he does it).

[SecretNetter]

We're going through a phase of ds2 (7) delaying and taking ages over everything. It drives me wild.

The dc will go to wash and brush teeth in the morning...ds1 is down is 5 minutes all done. I go to check on ds2 and he's standing looking in the mirror or watching a piece of dust or fiddling with something and hasn't even started yet. The child takes ten minutes to get his underwear on. Getting him dressed takes ages as he needs to be told 4 times to put every item on.

This has only been a few weeks and he was fine before that so I'm really hoping this is just a phase.

[SleepOhHowIMissYou]

Smell of dinner cooking permeates house. Time to raid the sweetie jar, obviously. I assume the smell of the food is the stimulus but son was stood behind me eating a Fry's Peppermint Cream as I was dishing up this weekend. Infuriating!

My kids are both ethereal wisp-like beings (despite the sweetie jar in the living room), also infuriating, I have a body like a 5ft 5inch toddler!

[SecretNetter]

Oh and wanting something as soon as I'm on the phone.

They will happily ignore me for hours. I answer the phone and they instantly need me to do something, have an urgent question they need answering, have an argument or take to tell about the other.

As soon as my call is over they cease to need me straight away.

[Garlicansapphire]

2 Teens:

• never switch off lights
  
• wet towels 'hung' on bedroom floors with dirty clothes
  
• mugs, plates, drink cans strewn about the house
  
• not going to bed
  
• general laziness
  
• non responses, scarcasm and monosyllabic answers to simple queries
  

You've got all this to look forward to! Still they don't get up really early anymore.

[BikeRunSki]

Eat incredibly slowly
Ask for food, and then not eat it.
Refusing to eat food without trying it.
Refusing to eat food they have happily eaten before.

[SparklyUnicornPoo]

DD sucks her middle and ring fingers and tries to breath through her mouth at the same time which makes horrible gasping noises.

DS sits there flicking his finger nails against his thumb nail, which shouldn't annoy me because I do it too but it is really annoying when it's not me doing it.

[Jollypirates3]

All of the above! Arguments, not listening. Asking a question. I amswer said question to be greeted with a "huh?". He is 4! Dont know where he learnt this! 2.5 year old screams about everything he isnt happy about. Instead of telling me the problem he screams. I offer a suggestion he screams if its not the right one. But if he is going to dob his brother in he manges to find his words

They always 'need' chocolate. But wont eat any actual food. And apparently chocolate stops your tummy hurting....

Also leaving it to the last minute to go to the toilet. I can askk x100 if they need to go to be told no whilst doing their dance. I then have to frog march them or found a wet puddle. Just go to the toilet!!! Why do you want to be so uncomfortbale. The actual accidents is new this week though. So not sure about that at the moment. And its not both of them.

The newborb is the easiest of the 3!

Ergh rant over, i feel better now. Thanks ladies. I do feel awful every evening though. I feel like im just shouting or saying no all day! i do love my kids!

[Hidingtonothing]

DD talks incessantly, I love her but sometimes I just want to run far, far away to somewhere quiet! I've been tired and irritable today and DH is away all week for work so it probably seems worse than usual but god I was glad when she went to bed

[msannabella]

There's always at least one of them touching me. I wouldn't mind if it was a hug or something but we have a 5 seater couch and the oldest always sits butted up to me at the corner so I have no space and I start to feel squashed. When they go to bed my husband takes the same place. Just choose a seat a bit further away!

We also have the phase of not wanting to eat anything. Every dinner is accompanied by a chorus of I don't want this, even if it's what they asked for. Grr!

[Tequilamockingbirdturd]

DS13 subjects me to his droney Whiney argumentative dull brain achey PS4 din for hours in an evening through the floorboards while he's online on PS4 to his friends....I can hear him over the tv on loud!

The inability to remember more than one instruction at a time.

Six months in to daily nag about his inability to pick up bathmat and open bathroom window after a shower.

Crusty boggy deposits on side of bath

Refusal to accept responsibility for anything .... it's always someone else's fault.

Calling me a nag..... I actually stumpt him the other day by asking him "what's the difference between me asking you to do something and nagging"? He took a breath to reply then paused looked me deep in the eye (like a poker player would when contemplating an opponents next move) he then said "got to go going to be late" he's so fecking clever and always one step ahead!

[DontPullThatTubeOut]

My eldest who is 3 crus at every ducking thing! My youngest who is nearly two, keeps pulling her tube out (hence the name lol) and then cries when I have to repass it. I've gotten to the point of begging and asking why she does it. She can't talk

[DontPullThatTubeOut]

Cries fucking

[DontPullThatTubeOut]

tootsie about two and a bit before my one stopped doing that. Now at three she pops to the toilet as soon as she wakes and comes in to say good morning, sometimes we've gone downstairs to find her sitting in the dark, alone just waiting for us to come down and give her breakfast.

[ShoesHaveSouls]

They never stop with the "Mu-u-u-u-m". And they're loud, and messy, and they're always touching me. Except one - who won't let me hug him, or do his hair. They can't really get it right can they?? I mean where's the happy medium? They're always telling me about stuff they must must must have for school at 10pm at night. They're fussy eaters. They take their socks off and throw them round the house.

Love them really

[Beerwench]

13 yo dd -

• phone permanently glued to hand yet unable to answer a call or text
  
• hogs the bathroom for hours, despite increasingly desperate pleas
  
• never appears to have homework until room wants tidying, washing up wants doing or it's bedtime
  
• scatters belongings through the house like a bird sheds feathers then demands where they are because they've been missing ages
  
• doesn't tuck curtains behind radiator when closing them, has window open still and radiator on full blast whining she's cold
  
• Dumps own body weight in washing in bathroom insisting she needs half of it in an hours time
  

Rather than turn down game/tv/music will shout over top and through the house and then pitch a fit because I don't know what she said

Just previewed that - anyone want a teenager? Free to any good home, full wardrobe and attitude as standard......

[Tequilamockingbirdturd]

Beerwench I feel and share your pain!

[OlennasWimple]

Talk.

All.The.Bloody.Time!

People say "oh, they're so articulate!"

Yes, yes they are. And we are grateful that they are, and we love the bones of them.

But jsut sometimes, it would be marvellous if they would just STFU

[SpareASquare]

Mine are mostly teens so there isn't a lot but the No.1 thing would be to knock on my toilet door to ask a question. I'm not in there for hours and there is (in my mind) nothing that can't wait the couple of mins until I'm out. I HATE the way they like to carry on a conversation through the door whilst I'm on the loo. GO AWAY!!!!!

[user1491572121]

Argue and wind one another up...run after each other in a house with wooden floors. They're 12 and 9 so FAR to big to be playing chasey.

They also fall out of trees, use my makeup, ask for food every half an hour and on occasion, they sneak into one another's rooms after midnight and have laughing fits which wake me up.

[Fiona1984]

My partner's son had a thing about making random repetitive noises, or repeating words. Thankfully he seems to be growing out of it now.
It drove his dad insane at times.

[LittleLionMansMummy]

Interrupts.

Asks me a question, doesn't properly listen to the answer, asks same question again two minutes later.

Doesn't listen.

Does everything in his own time, at his own speed. Says "wait a minute I'm just...."

Fiddles. With anything and everything available. All the fecking time.

He's 6.

[SuperBeagle]

DS' wash their hands in the kitchen and then drip across the floor to find a tea towel/paper towel.

They fight in the back of the car (7 seater, they're at the back). Shitful because they are too far away for me to slap them across the knees with a pair of thongs.

DS2 has legs like an elephant, we say, because he stomps. He's the least graceful kid I've ever known. Can hear him walking from a mile away.

DD turns away from you when you try to kiss her.

DD always needs the bathroom when I'm on the phone.

DS2 wipes his hands on the furniture.

DD shares her food with the dogs. Truly "a lick of ice cream for me, a lick for you". It's so grim. But she never gets sick, so?

[FluffedIt]

Always want that bit more/extra the ungrateful git - try to bribe with a pound, he'll ask for £2. Give him a biscuit he wants the packet, tell him we need to go to the shop he expects me to buy something. 'No you're 7 so you do as your told and get what your given!'

Smothers sister constantly, makes me claustrophobic just watching how close he has to get in her face. 'Fucking leave her alone arghhhhhhhh'