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Things that your kids do that gives you the rage

85 replies

shoulditbethishard1 · 19/04/2023 18:52

lighthearted (kind of 😂)

For me it’s ignoring me

4 year old twin girls. Today for example DT1 is on the toilet - 3 times I asked her (from another room but very close) if she was finished. No answer.

DT2 - would you like a drink of milk - no answer. So no milk. When I bring her sister some she cries that she wants milk 😤

it’s the one thing above almost everything else that drives me mad

AIBU that this irrational (or rationally??) gives me the rage?

what do your kids do that really annoys you?

OP posts:
Eileen101 · 19/04/2023 18:54

Exactly the same! Plus refusing to go to sleep when clearly tired and you know they'll be a grump the next day!

Bridgingthefeckingmassivegap · 19/04/2023 19:00

I don't mind being ignored, I can deal with that. I cannot abide when I ask them to do/stop doing something and they acknowledge me but continue doing it in that same moment! My 3yo DD is doing this a lot at the moment!

riotlady · 19/04/2023 19:06

“Mum?”
”yes?”
”mum?”
”yes?”
”mum?”
YES I’M LISTENING TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT

Noorandapples · 19/04/2023 19:07

Ooh when I talk my 6 yo off for doing something naughty in front of me and his audacity to say he didn't do it! I just saw you, you little pumpkin head!

CLEO42 · 19/04/2023 19:13

:What do you mean we are going out now...why didn't you tell me??!! I didn't know we were going to X!! You never tell me anything"

After a 30, 10, 5 min countdown, a reminder the night before and that morning AND it's written on the blackboard that we hung up in the kitchen because you said you never knew what was happening and when.

AAARGHHH!

Mightyouandiconfabulate · 19/04/2023 19:16

Switch. Every. Fucking. Light. On. In. The. Fucking. HOUSE…day and night.
I walk round switching lights off day and night.

Apart from that, they are grand.

MakingMeWannaDance · 19/04/2023 19:16

Dd2 loves drawing on the walls 😤🤬

Tammy47 · 19/04/2023 19:19

my baby pooping in nappy on the way out the door when already running late 😂

JazzHans · 19/04/2023 19:19

Stop jumping around on the living room furniture, that includes the table, and the sideboard, and the door. Also it's disgusting to pick your nose and put it in your mouth, ah don't jump on me you'll wipe it on me, careful with your elbows, ow. Stop grabbing your soft toys and running to a sink with them, no they don't need a shower, yes it is fair. No thank you I don't want a spoonful of strawberry yoghurt, you have it it's ok, oh no it's everywhere again. Don't lick other people it's rude. And not the wall either. Don't lick the floor that's worse, it's not funny when Mummy tells you off- I'm serious. I can't carry you you're too heavy, hold my hand please, noo stop running off there's a road. Agghhhh. I need to save this and read it when I have broody moments.

PenguinJelly · 19/04/2023 19:20

riotlady · 19/04/2023 19:06

“Mum?”
”yes?”
”mum?”
”yes?”
”mum?”
YES I’M LISTENING TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT

@riotlady this a million times over

Sugarandspicee · 19/04/2023 19:21

JazzHans · 19/04/2023 19:19

Stop jumping around on the living room furniture, that includes the table, and the sideboard, and the door. Also it's disgusting to pick your nose and put it in your mouth, ah don't jump on me you'll wipe it on me, careful with your elbows, ow. Stop grabbing your soft toys and running to a sink with them, no they don't need a shower, yes it is fair. No thank you I don't want a spoonful of strawberry yoghurt, you have it it's ok, oh no it's everywhere again. Don't lick other people it's rude. And not the wall either. Don't lick the floor that's worse, it's not funny when Mummy tells you off- I'm serious. I can't carry you you're too heavy, hold my hand please, noo stop running off there's a road. Agghhhh. I need to save this and read it when I have broody moments.

Hahahaha I could have wrote all of this myself! The joys of small children hey!

YolayCaprese · 19/04/2023 19:22

I don't have all day bit nominate pulling the sofa apart. Before I had kids my nephews used to do it and give my sister the utter rage and I'd be like "what's the big deal?"
Now I'm like, if you pull that sofa apart one more time I am removing it and you sit on the floor like DOGS.

Except I would also have to sit on the floor so they win again.

tobee · 19/04/2023 19:24

Cooking dinner at 2 am
Leaving great big trainers, old socks on bathroom floor.
Leaving dressing gown on utility room floor.

(About to be tested for adhd)

Oysterbabe · 19/04/2023 19:25

When my 5 year old asks me for something he does it in a completely exasperated tone that you'd expect from someone who has asked 100 times already.

GoodChat · 19/04/2023 19:25

Ours have taken to climbing on our work desks and scribbling all over any notes we happen to have left out. Not just toddler scribble either. Full on scribble until the text is no longer legible kind of scribble Grin

Oysterbabe · 19/04/2023 19:26

Mightyouandiconfabulate · 19/04/2023 19:16

Switch. Every. Fucking. Light. On. In. The. Fucking. HOUSE…day and night.
I walk round switching lights off day and night.

Apart from that, they are grand.

Same but it's DH.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 19/04/2023 19:27

DS16 - Calling me "bruh" all the fucking time Angry

wornoutslippers · 19/04/2023 19:27

4 year old and interrupting 🤯

Let me have at least one adult conversation today, please.

TheWorldsGoneMadAndSoHaveI · 19/04/2023 19:28

When they think its funny to repeat back to you what you say, and wont stop

TheWayTheLightFalls · 19/04/2023 19:30

When they proceed to do exactly the thing I spent the previous two minutes warning them against, and what happens is what I warned them against, and then they cry.

“DS, don’t stick your finger in your sister’s mouth, she’ll bite you.”

”DD1, take your school shirt off before you eat that chocolate; it’ll melt.”

”DD2, if you want that snack eat it now and stop waving it at the neighbour’s dog.”

I’m like fucking Cassandra me.

Oysterbabe · 19/04/2023 19:30

When we're walking home from school they both try and tell me about their day, absolutely will not take turns and usually ends with them both shouting and crying 'DD/DS won't stop talking over meeeeeeee!'
If I do manage to get DS to be quiet and wait, DD will try her best to talk continually without taking a breath until we get home.

PickleOfAConundrum · 19/04/2023 19:32

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 19/04/2023 19:27

DS16 - Calling me "bruh" all the fucking time Angry

😂 my daughter is coming 11 soon and watches American videos on YouTube. Started calling me Bruh or chill man!!! I'm her mum 😂

Everydayimhuffling · 19/04/2023 19:37

The toddler lying or sitting down in the middle of the pavement and refusing to walk on the way home from nursery. I then have to stagger home carrying his enormous self plus 3 bags and trying to hold Dd's hand.

The 4 year old pushing every bloody boundary all day so that by the end of my days with them both I'm exhausted and feel like a terrible parent for the times I've lost my patience.

Thank goodness they're so loveable.

Bananalanacake · 19/04/2023 19:38

Live in the same house as me.

SgtCawood · 19/04/2023 19:43

“What’s for tea”
Tell them.
Two minutes later - “what’s for tea?”
I’ve already told you.
“But I wasn’t listening”
”But I’ve forGOTTen”

Guaranteed to ask again at least 3 times per child.