To find my children annoying.....

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I love my children, but sometimes (read often), they just annoy the hell out of me. I try my best not to show it, but the eldest, 8 will come up and bounce in my face or copy what I say, 6 year asking 50 million questions....5 year your old just rolling around....it's all typical behaviour and they're often well behaved, and I live them too pieces. But I just find I sonetines want to say bugger off!! And they do something lovely and I feel bad lol.

Children are really annoying.
Fact of life. Well maybe mother Theresa doesn’t think so, but everyone else does

Lovable twats

My favourite description, whilst I listen to wonky renditions of twinkle star on the guitar at 630am. I can't decide wether having my ears burnt is more annoying than getting out of my bed, into the cold before my alarm by as gone off, to ask him to stop.

I was worried I'd be hounded for this post. Seems we're a united front...

My annoying start to the day was 3yo coming in to me having a shower, dancing around singing ‘your boobies, your booooobies’ and a discussion about winkies. The window was open so all our neighbours have had a lovely start to the day too

My dd spent the day asking for things but changing her mind before I'd even had the chance to give her each thing.
Understandably I began to feel quite stressed, my dd saw this on my face and said "cheer up mum" - argh 🤯

Yeah kids are annoying it’s a fact They have shit banter most of the time and you can hardly ever trust them with the most basic tasks. If they were my employee I’d sack them.

But they’re kinda cute so....

Mine are 10 & 11 and still manage to annoy me at least once a day. Particularly when they want nothing to do with me 90% of the day however when it comes to bedtime I am subjected to every thought, scene and opinion from their day.
I feel like screaming "I want to go to BEDDDD! Stop talking. If it was so bloody important why not tell me about it 7 hours ago!"

You need a break. I have at least one whole day a month away from everyone, just to have completely to myself. It's amazing. When we get a very rare entire weekend without dc I do miss them and enjoy their company when they're back again!

-Muuuuuuuuum.......
-Yes?
-Muuuuuuuuuum........
-yes?

• muuuuuuuuuuuuuuum, I've done a poo. Come look.......

@Theducksarenotmyfriends yeah, i miss them like mad when I'm not around them!! What a twisted world

One (the very chattiest one)is at a friend's for tea. Which is welcome bit of quiet lol

That’s annoying, but not as annoying as ‘why?’
I actually love the question ‘why?’ and always try to give a nice detailed reply. However, when the conversation goes like this...
DC - please can I have [insert item here]
Me - yes
DC - why?
I could actually fling a shoe at them (I don’t, obvs).

That should have been in reply to @ActualHornist’s post

I had twenty five years of being touched, leaned against, having faces pushed up into mine when I was trying to sleep, noise, mess, more noise and repetitive interruptions to every single thing I did.

Then they left home. So I got a terrier.... and it's all happening again. It's not limited to humans.

I love mine to bits but I daydream about when I’ll get a day to myself. Then it happens and I miss them and want them back.

It’s a fucked up version of Stockholm Syndrome I swear.

This is one of the best and honest posts I have seen on here! Lets all stop pretending children aren't annoying because lets face it they fucking are!
Also this comment made me LOL:

My toddler went all floppy on the floor and refused to move in the supermarket today. Was so tempted to just leave them there among the fresh produce.

My DD once refused to get in the car after shopping - so me and other dd buckled up and reversed 0.2 metres, probably less in reality. Dd1 went on for hours about how I'd driven off from her! I hadn't even made it out of the space!
Neither of them have ever refused to get in the car since though.

I too love how this is an honest thread about how annoying the kids are, even though we would die for them and how we all secretly love when they sneak into the bed in the middle of the night (which is my particular favourite)

Maddening though they are, they're still ours and we all still stop in and check they're ok on our way to bed and regale in how angelic they look while asleep only to be woken at some unearthly hour with either YouTube or killing each other over the minutest of things- but I wouldn't have it any other way

I love to go back to the cute toddler stage instead of the stroppy rude know it all nearly 13 year old. I never believed people when they said it gets harder when gets older. It def does mentally.

All kids are incredibly annoying, mine are very skilled at making me want to hide in the attic with wine . .

Since mine has just woke up and refusing to go to sleep screaming “I want to go in your bed” relentlessly then yes I find him incredibly annoying!!!

Isn’t it our job to pull them up on these annoying things? I just see that as socialising them.

I agree. Some parents are saints and just put up with being treated as furniture and play boring games for hours. Me, I say stuff like "don't stand on my foot, don't hold onto my head, please be quiet for five minutes, mama has a headache. No, I can't play pretend with you ever right now." But actually I do feel guilty about that, and I wonder if it's somehow "better" for children to have parents who just accept everything? They can't help being annoying, it's developmentally normal, right? I often blame my parents for not letting me be a child, I hope I'm not doing the same to mine.

We are at the end of the loooonnnggg summer holidays here in NZ and after 6 weeks my 12, 11 and 8 YOs are contenders for most annoying children even and seem to relish irritating one another which, by definition, annoys me and DH. In a fair call though, DH challenged me to spend 6 days let alone 6 weeks with my siblings.

My daughter on her monkey bars

Her : Mummmmmm..... look at my trick
Me : walks out of the house or stands at the back door and watches the trick while telling her how wonderful it is and then walk away
Her : Muuuummmm, I have another trick
Me : walks back and watches another trick while DD tells me it's so different to the last one
Me : the only difference I see is that she may (may have, not really sure though) pointed her little toe in the other direction.

Repeat 100 times a day alternating between monkey bars, cartwheel and handstand tricks hahaha

I often ask my 4 year old to call me by my first name just to give my ears a break from ‘mum, mum, mum, mum, mummy, mummy, mum, mummy...’

My eldest is 14 and still annoys me everyday. I can just about take the teenager moods and one word answers, just. What I can’t understand is why he brings our little dog into my room to play fight with her on my bed when I’ve just announced that I’m going to bed and DH is still up should they need anything. I had to ask him not to keep doing it yet he still is!

Let's all console ourselves that one day our children might have children and they will have a taste of their own medicine

I wonder if we are getting punished for what we put our parents through. Although, I have conveniently forgotten all about it

I'm definitely getting my karma! Lord help me when dd is a teenager 😢