To be sick and tired of teenagers! Aibu to want them to go back to when they were 4.

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I'm a sahm and nothing is worse than a house full of teenagers at half term.

I'm sick of

1. Being asked for lifts everywhere like I'm a taxi driver.
2. Being asked for money
3. Having to hear petty drama about them not sharing the television, or for stealing an iPhone charger or for hogging the PlayStation.
4. For the constant arguments and bitchiness.

I have 4 teenage girls from dd17 dd 16 dsd 14, dd 14 and 3 teenage boys ds17, dss17 dss17 (twins).

I can't stand it I'm not looking forward to summer at all.

Oh and they clash(DDs) terribly most days at one point. I hate it, especially when I get a phone call while I'm at the till in Aldi and younger DD says she's been locked out in the garden by older DD because she called her lazy!!! By the time I get home they are laughing again. GRRR. I keep chanting, 'This too in time shall pass.'

Wow. 7 teenagers. I was about to not offer much sympathy, but now you get and from me by the bucketload. I have two of my own and had two temporary ones yesterday. But mine aren't competitive with each other, get on really well and don't get on my nerves at all.

Ha ha! Giddyaunt, you have to laugh😀!,I always feel slightly unsettled if I try to go out and leave them to their own devices. I have got back surprised when they've organised cake making and got on amazingly!, but I don't think you ever fully relax when your away from them, just incase it's all " kicking off!".

My 7 and 5 year olds are constantly fighting. I'm dreading the teen years! Aaaaaagh!!

Westray- I am also in need of tips. You seem to be doing a better job than the rest of us.

You really do deserve a medal op.
I have one 15yo and two younger ones. To misquote I built castles for her but she didn't want them.
Nobody nobody has made me feel the way she does.
westray I too had a miserable childhood, followed by miserable teenage years, and one of the thing that kept me going was the thought that my own children would never feel the way I did. But she is not me. She is herself, and though i hope that the love I have poured into her counts for something, she has her own battles to fght which I not a part of. Life is rarely tidy, or just.

It's ok Brutus, my eldest and myself were talking the other day about when they were your children's age, and the fact they did bicker more frequently then.

Although she loves her sisters , she thinks this was because of the close proximity; that they were in each other's spaces a lot. Now they can disappear out or to their rooms.

The problem now when they do argue, is that you can't just send them to their rooms anymore; they won't take any notice. I go to the corner of the garden to calm down, and wait for the arguing to calm a bit and then talk to them.

Thanks, stuck! We are planning on making the seven year old's room more of a "big girl's" haven for her as she still very much has her toddler room (albeit with a single bed).

Seven teens, though; eek!

At that age I'd be telling dh that you can't have them all in the holidays , surely they can stay home if there mum is working ?

Or if he wants them all then he needs to take time off

Where do they all sleep ? I'm surprised the step kids want to come rather than stay at home with their mates !