As above. DCs are 1 and 4. I cleaned the kitchen yesterday, washed the floors etc and within 2 mins it was back to the same state as before. Life feels like a never ending round of meals, clean up gigantic mess after meals while house gets trashed by the kids in a different room, cook next meal, clean up ad infinitum. And by cleaning up I mean putting stuff in the dishwasher and scraping food off the floor, highchair etc so not even making the house look presentable just trying to stop descent into squalor.
Oh yeah and don't forget actually try to work as well. DH is doing 50% of childcare so pulling his weight and is really happy and cheerful. I feel absolutely suffocated and would quite like to scream right now.
Would anyone else like to join me in a nice scream?
AIBU?
To wonder why the fuck I bother cleaning anything
polexiaaphrodesia · 11/05/2020 18:16
Top tip is break your leg.
That's when they all learnt to clean up and use the white goods 
Oh god can I join you in a spot of therapy screaming?
Only 1 DC, 2.5 years old. She likes to sweep up things. Which I thought - great! Until I realised she only likes to sweep things she has deliberately dropped - things from the cupboards like rice, pasta. Little toy cars etc. She sweeps and then puts it all into another cupboard. Was steam mopping the kitchen floor at 8am today. I wouldn't say it was clean exactly, but it was presentable, bit less of a bio-hazard than before.
Then came down from my working time this evening (DH and I are both trying to WFH full-time ha ha ha) to find the same floor basically a carpet of hairy play doh, tiny stickers and flour (daddy baked biscuits!)
Okay the biscuits helped but the worst of it is that I'm 34 weeks pregnant and can't even drink 
You have another 10 years of cleaning up 
If they are boys, FGS teach them to sit down to wee at home.
I have four teenagers.
As soon as I clean the kitchen, one appears to spread their shit everywhere eat their 98th meal of the day 
At least back in the day when most women stayed home, they could just push the kids out to play in the garden or the street or fish in the local brook or whatever. It's not bloody natural to have kids showering filth over everything constantly.
Couldn't agree more.
This is probably the reason kids played out from a young age and mothers put their babies in the garden in their pram
I'd just like a couple of hours to myself to tidy up in peace without it being destroyed around me.
Our playroom currently looks like we've been burgled.
2x 3.5yo's, one 7yo and one 15yo plus DH who really is honestly the worst of all of them. If ADHD is on a spectrum I firmly believe they are all on it somewhere. Tiny house. Too much stuff. Thankfully we do have a garden space. Currently lsolating due to a little tickly cough one member of the household had last week 
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I lost my shit today and sent everyone out into the garden to play ALL day. God the mess is just hateful. I alternate between trying to completely ignore it to preserve my sanity and feeling batshit about it on an almost hourly basis.
i say on the couch in my kitchen yesterday just looking at the mess in my kitchen so just left it and went to bed.
I feel your pain op. I cleaned it the other day then my daughter asked for toast and i said you can have anything that doesn’t have crumbs. So fed up with it all 
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