Why does everyone pretend it’s this amazing wonderful thing when actually it’s just relentless boredom and worry and doing things you don’t want to all the time.
I cannot think of one single thing that I like about having children. It’s not their fault and of course I do my best but I hate it. I’d like to walk out and never come back.
Youngest one is now having to isolate for two weeks because of covid in their school so that’s two weeks stuck in the house. Oldest one has SEN. Youngest one isn’t very bright and is already struggling in reception. Oldest one has ASD and is nowhere near as independent as most children their age.
It isn’t relentless, the asking for things, the problems I’m having to solve, I am so bored. All my life is is a series of stuff I don’t want to do with no let up. My youngest doesn’t sleep much and doesn’t go to bed until 10pm and is up again at 6.30. I have had enough.
Then I see fb videos and photos of people with their lovely families and children, enjoying days out, playing with their children etc and I think is it me? Is it just me who finds this so thankless and dull? It makes me anxious as well, having two other people demanding things from me and of me all the time.
I wish I’d known. I just wish I’d known.
AIBU?
To ask why no one tells you how shit it is having children?
Boredandexhausted · 13/10/2020 16:54
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XelaM · 03/03/2024 16:47
Well I love it 🤷♀️ my daughter is awesome and I'm super proud of her and she's great company too 🤩
I think parents who hate being parents are either unlucky (ie. children with complex SEN) or are doing this whole thing wrong. I don't spend my life doing things I hate 🤷♀️ Even when she was a baby, I just took her with me to things I enjoyed doing so I never felt that I was restricted by having my daughter- quite the opposite. She was what made life so much more fun and worthwhile.
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