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.....

Mine are 9 and 6.
Actually if this had happened a couple of years ago I'd be drowning. Ds2 was such a clingly toddler and preschooler. Thankfully they're old enough to entertain themselves a lot of the time!
However I have banned YouTube. I have reclaimed the big PC so ds1 doesn't just sit gaming all day.
They've just had an epic nerf gun battle. Excellent fun - but now we've got to find all the bullets. They go from amazing to annoying and back again.

I thought it was just me. Find mine very annoying, feel I’m snapping at everything they do or ask for, also same with DH. I’m drinking 4 nights / not for 3 nights and think I’m actually far more ratty on days I don’t have wine to look forwards too/ even a semi hangover next day.

Yup to amazing then annoying and back again.
I find riding the constant choppy waves of their emotions like being pulled along in an inflatable donut by a motor boat at speed.

I gaze lovingly at the one that isn't being so irritating that i want to neck a quick shot of rum and decide she's my favourite. Then she starts refusing to do anything I ask and the other one joins in to help me and he's my favourite. Exhausting!!

I have a 6 month old, 2 year old and 5 year old. We have good and bad days.

On the good days the older two can go outside and find a game to play and be content with it for an hour. On a bad day the two year old clings to me like a limpet whilst I try and feed the baby and the 5 year old mopes around saying they're boooooored. And yes getting out food, tidying it away all the time is relentless, I do feel like a maid.

Nice to see it's not just me. Mine are 15 & 12. Usually self sufficient and quite helpful. They've both reverted to acting like toddlers. Following me around and being ao clingy.
The eldest is never usually seen. Does what teenagers do in her bedroom. Nope, not now, she feels the need to be sat next to me all the time. I sit in the garden, she sits in the garden. Like a toddler she leans on me. She's as tall as a grown adult and she's practically sat on my lap. It's lovely, she's not usually a cuddly child, but my goodness it's hot and tiring. She's very good at being told to bugger off though and only huffs a little! We're avoiding the news as I don't think hearing about CV 24/7 helps.
DH is a keyworker so the days are long!. Luckily they tolerate each other fairly well. Dd2 is so annoying atm. She's in the grip of hormones and seems to dissolve in tears at the slightest thing, again, an overgrown toddler!. She also bounces and jumps everywhere. Cannot sit still. She exhausts me watching her. Definitely missing her very active hobby.
I love them, endlessly, but please schools take them back soon!

Mine are getting on ok on the whole, but there are no expectations this week as we are all on school holiday. Next week when I'm working again and the oldest will need to do some work will be more of a challenge.

I am glad mine are older, but they still have their moments. Mine are 9, 13, 15 and 50 (he’s the most annoying of all)

DH has been furloughed and is loving it, but doesn’t help with schoolwork. (Obviously it’s holidays this week) I’m wfh but he doesn’t get it. In the end yesterday I told him to f**k off to his shed so i could get on with some work!

The actual kids are ok, most of the time. 15yo is now nocturnal, 9 year old is demanding, but her sister is fabulous about occupying her. I actually wfh a lot, but usually with no-one else around

Dd12 just wants to laze around and is horrible to everyone because she has no phone and it's made to do some jobs round the house (no phone until she completes school work that was meant to be done before easter)

Dd10 is emotional and missing her friends and routine, follows me like a sheep and cries every time anyone does or says anything she doesn't like

Ds8 has verbal diarrhoea and tells me all about everything in the entire land at top speed, and uses 'mummy' as punctuation. Also is hyper 80% of the time and runs around our tiny house shrieking.

Ds4 is BORED and STARVING at all times and has developed a liking for gaming so now asks to go on the switch every 45 seconds. He also hates everyone and everything that doesnt directly do what he wants. He's desperately in need of being at play groups and seeing his friends and going to parks.

Daughters fight, sons fight, daughters fight sons, sons fought daughters.

Dds have taken to staying up later and dh coming home from work earlier so I have absolutely ZERO time on my own and I'm going slowly mad.

But I do love them hahaha

I’ve found my patience waning as the weeks have passed. I love them but they’re really intense! My lot (8, 6 and 4) are currently on mine and dh’s tablets playing Busy Things and J2 Blast. Even doing that they shriek and bicker!!
The 6 year old and 8 year old have obsessive personalities (asd and adhd for one, the other is waiting for assessment) and before lockdown they barely used the tablet as I couldn’t take the constant whining and dramatics over ‘tablet time’. Now they’re expected to do daily online learning, as well as educational online games.

Yanbu. I love my DC after 2 week's of hanging out I dug out my headphones.
It is bliss.

Sooooooooo annoying

Chickenwing I'm so sorry that you feel that way about your parents. I hope that they have never said such a thing to you.

My children are by far the hardest, most stressful, most heartbreaking thing Ive ever 'done'. They are also the best, most incredible, beautiful and life affirming. I tell them as often as I can how much I love them and how lucky I feel to have them.

Most really worthwhile things are bloody difficult and life is complicated.

People make choices for all sorts of different reasons and if everyone just went for the easiest option there'd by no doctors or nurses for a start and we'd be pretty stuffed right now!

I guess if everyone chose not to have children, the doctors would be less important as our species would die out. It's fine for you to think that's a good thing, but it can't take that much imagination to understand that others feel differently and why.

Also, I don't go on modelrailways.net and ask why people spend so much time on such a weird, boring hobby. Because that would make me a dick.

@chickenwing having children is fulfilling. That's not to say it's always enjoyable.