To find my children annoying

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Well....as it says! I adore my children....but....they are annoying! I feel I should be relishing the chance to spend sooo much quality time, but right now....I’m thinking ear plugs! Anyone else? The constant questions, refereeing and general mess. This lock down is really highlighting this, I’ve an 8, 6 and 5 yeAr old.
Do people exist that are able stay all rosey during this? What’s your secret?!

They’ve just gone up to bed and I can hear the thumping around while they’re no doubt playing a hilarious game! But just stfu so I can watch crap tv and eat Easter egg in peace.....

Lockdown or no lockdown I find mine annoying pretty much 90% of the time OP!

It's ridiculous, I love my boys and my husband but totally unnatural for us (or anyone) to all be hanging out with nowhere to go and no one else to see for weeks. Being social is an important part of human behaviour and child development, things aren't right without it. IMO you'd have to be insane to be enjoying this right now and have a high threshold for housework/tidying and cooking.

I love my boys so much.
They are 11mo and 2.5yo.
But the 11mo has just started walking and the 2.5yo doesn't seem to like it and keeps pushing him to the floor.
Then obviously I have to console youngest DS and try and explain to my older DS who has a speech delay why it's not a nice thing to do, then they're both crying.
That, all day, every day, had been my last 30 days or so.
Youngest DS is also teething and wakes me up at least 5 times a night, sometimes for hours at a time.
I love them, but I feel like I need a break, then I feel guilty for thinking I need a break.

7 and 2 year old
Both equally annoying

3yo, 5yo, almost 9yo, and 11yo. Two with additional needs. Some days they're all friends and it's great, other days they make it a mission to purposely get on one anothers last nerve. I have lost count of the number of times I have said the following phrases:

• quiet down a bit your dad is trying to work / the neighbours don't want to hear you / it's too early (or late) for this amount of noise / I have a headache

• give your brother/sister their back, you didn't want to play with it until you saw him/her with it

• you are not hungry, you are bored

• put some pants (trousers) on

• STOP BLOODY FIGHTING!

I'm getting through it with a bit of benign neglect, a bit of lowering my standards, and a bit of day drinking.

Also not enjoying every moment. Love my kids (primary age) but they are so noisy. I would love a couple of hours of uninterrupted peace.

This is hell on Earth. I normally work full time out of the house so have space and adult time. When I have days off over the holidays or weekends we see friends, have play dates, go to soft play cinema or even just the park. Just being cooped up in the house with a small slabbed garden is hell. We’re going out for our daily walk but it’s just not the same as interacting with other children at the park or anything.

Good days and bad days here.... My husband is furloughed so I have a lot more help than usual (he generally works loooooong hours) and it's nice to get some time all together.

On the other hand my 2 preschoolers are INCREDIBLY annoying and constantly bickering. My 4 year old is currently screaming at my 2 year old because 'he's not allowed to sing Let it Go, it's MY song'. The 2 year old is retaliating by shouting 'let it go' as loud as he possibly can approx 2 mm from her face. I'm ignoring them.

I'm still working (NHS) and work is definitely less stressful!!

God, I remember those days - luckily mine are older now and are occupying themselves (by that I mean they don’t really surface from their rooms except for food!) Eldest dd is quite hormonal and grumpy and tie-dying every piece of clothing she owns (bored!) but apart from that they’re behaving.

Although I loved it when they were little I’d much rather have teenagers during lockdown!

They find us annoying too tbh.

I think we have just been lucky that our kids are at a bit of a sweet spot at 12, 10 and 6. They're a fairly easy bunch of kids now but I'd be fraying at the seems if this happened 5 years ago.

Think I've cracked it with dd (4).
She's now into playing with her hospital toys, I'm the patient lying on the sofa getting told to go to sleep while she puts bandages and plasters on my arms.
It's much better than playing with the dolls having to change their outfits 20 times a day. When I don't do it right she'd have a meltdown.

This post is hilarious. I'm so glad everyone else feels the same way!!

I normally work 4 days a week but now off with a 3 week old and a 3 year old.

I'm breastfeeding and my 3 year old is desperately trying to get my attention all day long and just constantly talking and asking a million questions a day. I'm really introverted, and talking for more than about half an hour absolutely drives me up the wall!

Only a few more months...

YANBU. Trapped with a normally energetic 13 year old. No activities for weeks so he now alternates between sloth and hyper. The hyper part is usually about 7.30 pm after refusing all day to exercise 🤔😤

Children are annoying. It’s what they are best at doing!

If there is any parent in the world who says they don’t find their child annoying they are lying!

Love my toddler DD beyond measure but she is a pain in the arse.

Eldest dd is quite hormonal and grumpy and tie-dying every piece of clothing she owns (bored!)

I love this.

My 4 year old is currently screaming at my 2 year old because 'he's not allowed to sing Let it Go, it's MY song'. The 2 year old is retaliating by shouting 'let it go' as loud as he possibly can approx 2 mm from her face.

This made me laugh too!

I love them so, so, so, so, so much. But one of them has verbal diarrhoea and the other one is a velcro child. In small doses at the beginning and end of the day I can handle it, and even find it endearing. When there's no escaping it, I actually feel a bit panicked! I worry that my brain will short circuit irretrievably and I'll be left a twitching, nervous wreck.

I’m usually that really annoying parent that thoroughly enjoys spending every minute with my lo’s. They don’t bicker/fight with each other, they play nicely and independently, we’re smashing home education, baking every day and the house is sparkling............however by 4pm I either need them to go to bed or I need to down 5 shots of tequila to get me through to bedtime.

I’m not sure it’s them though, I think I just struggle with the absolute monotony of every day, we can’t leave the house, we don’t really watch tv, oh is a key worker and so I’m on my own with no adult interaction (so all my inappropriate jokes go unheard). I suppose what I’m finding is a lack of fulfilment, which gives me massive guilt.

My two are 11 and 13 and they are annoying because they fight physically all the time. They are currently kicking each other but I can’t be bothered to deal with it.
My eldest did tell me yesterday that she loves annoying me and that's her job.

I adore my two (6 and 21mo) more than anything, but they're driving me crazy. We do have some lovely moments and it isn't as awful as I'd imagined, but it's not great either. DH works 8:30 - 5:30, so not even ridiculous hours but the days are long!

Toddler DS keeps trying to destroy everything DD is doing, and I can't play with her because he can't stand it. We tried to play draughts yesterday and he went nuts, despite DH being on his lunch break and trying to entertain him. So, that failed. The only time she can play safely is when he's having his nap and, of fucking course, he's trying to drop it right now. Great timing, DS.

Then DD is just incapable of entertaining herself. DS will sit and play cars for ages (unless he sees me trying to interact with DD!) but DD has never been able to play on her own. It's constant "Muuumm!" and I can't bear it... She will play for a bit but if it's not something that's engrossing her totally, she flits about and follows me around. They both do, actually. Even in the garden it's "What can I play?"or "Mammmaaaaa!!!"

We've kept their routine (getting up and going to bed) because if I didn't get some peace by 8:30pm I would cry.

I suppose what I’m finding is a lack of fulfilment, which gives me massive guilt.

Why would you feel guilt? Being stuck at home in these circumstances, with (presumably) young children IS unfulfilling for the most part! I say this as someone who is a SAHM by choice nothing to feel guilty about, it's human nature to want more than being a glorified servant, trapped 24/7 with mini dictators!

My eldest DD has taken to singing "Mariah Carey warbling" style incredibly loudly. She's a good singer but she keeps singing the same songs over and over again in random bursts- it's driving me nuts. I've been sitting in the garden to get away from it but I can still hear it- god knows what the poor neighbours must think!

My youngest has spent all morning making cookies- she's asked to do it all on her own... I don't have the heart to tell her that I think the butters gone off- the kitchen stinks of cheese. Kitchen looks like a bears been in it.

No YANBU!!

4 yo and 15 month old... driving me absolutely crackers.