Things that your kids do that gives you the rage

[shoulditbethishard1]

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?

Dc1 - general messiness (is at uni though so only a problem half the time)
dc2 - shoes never on the shoe rack but instead seems hellbent on starting a new trend of leaving shoes in the kitchen in a long line
dc3 - pees on toilet seat

overall though it’s all quite minimal, I pick my battles and remember it is their home too. I like everything to be clean and tidy but appreciate that others are less bothered about this. The pee on the seat though… 😩

Using all the toilet roll and not replacing it. Wet bath mats left on the floor. Using a towel ONCE and putting it in the wash. Blocking the toilet and using all the towels to clean up the floor 🤣🤣🤣🤣 yep mum to two teenage boys hence my grey hair 🤣🤣🤣 but they are there for me when I can't do stuff so....it evens out ❤️

Mine are teens/tweens and right now it’s leaving every fucking light on, regardless of whether the lights needed to be on in the first place.

Oh, and drinking nearly every drop in a bottle or carton and then putting the nearly empty receptacle back in the fridge.

Throwing themselves around when you try to help them get dressed... just stand fucking still!!!!

At the moment (it is a moveable feast):

The nose picking. Yes, we can still tell you are picking your nose if you are under a blanket.

The massive drama about being required to eat using cutlery, to wit, a knife and fork, both at the same time. She is six and I swear, when she was two she had better table manners.

Constant conversations that begin with: 'Mummy (mummymummymummyMUMMMEEEE), I'm HUNGRY. What can I eat?' and proceed through 1) demands for chocolate 2) refusal of any other option 3) demand for something else not offered, eg. sprinkles, 4) rage: I ASKED FOR SPRINKLES THAT IS NOT CHOCOLATE! 5) melodramatic acceptance of a banana/ham sandwich/whatever.

This.

And putting empty packets and wrappers back in the cupboard.

My daughter and the damn socks
She no concept of her own socks.
She will wear her own from her drawer, and her siblings, she will wear mine and her dads.
She takes off her socks wherever she is, sofa, toilet, kitchen table and will leave them there. Her feet will then get cold and she won't go back and put on her abandoned socks- she will go find the nearest clean pair and put them on.
Repeat throughout the day.
She takes off her socks in school and loses them.
She has never returned from a sleepover/school trip/guides weekend with any of her own socks but often other peoples.
She likes the feeling of new socks and will often buy new ones.
Our house is over run with half worn socks- and there are no matching ones in my drawer ever. If I leave a clean laundry pile she will pinch the socks to wear
I found a sock in the fridge last week- I don't know why she did that. She doesn't even register that she does this.

The first thing my child does after swallowing their last mouthful of lunch is ask 'what's for dinner?'

The socks! They take them off at the earliest opportunity and leave them wherever they took them off or worse, fling them in the air to see where they land and leave them there. I am constantly picking up socks!

Sorry meant to quote Cleo!

DC2 drawing on my walls, jumping on furniture, generally being as naughty as poss like it's a challenge. DC1 "what did you say" x infinity unless it involves sweets or toys. Just get baby to sleep and one of either DC1 or DC2 starts shouting "Maaaaaaaama" They are great wee people though!!

DD 11- shuts her blinds and turns on her light in the middle of the day.
DS 9- annoys people for his own entertainment when he is bored. Extra annoying when it's first thing in the morning as we are all just waking up.
DS 3 is infuriatingly stubborn.

Oh and statements instead of questions.
DC: I’m hungry or I want this thing
Me: I didn’t hear a question.
I can’t stand people who don’t ask clearly what they want (big issue at my work) so I will drill that out of them!

Wet towels everywhere. But in the bathroom.

Arguing about getting in the shower. Strop whilst you're in there and save yourself some time.

Having to be woken on a school morning but getting up early on a weekend.

Waiting until I buy a lot of whatever is their flavour of the month before going off it.

Leaving their stuff all over the dining room table and then complaining that there are too many things to take back upstairs when I have to tidy it to be able to use it.

Same! Being ignored gives me the rage but my kids ignore me for most of the waking day 😂 I just breath through it

Mine is teeth brushing - she'll do everything else but actually brush her teeth 🙈🙈🙈 She mostly just stands with the toothbrush hovering close to her mouth... EVERY... SINGLE... DAY 😩😩 I wish I could have a £ every time I said "can you clean your teeth properly please" - I'm sure I'd be a millionaire by now.

Oh and hair brushing - sit still means exactly that - not try and move as much as possible and then screech at me because your hair has pulled at an accelerated rate because you are doing the OPPOSITE of sitting still 😩

My 6 year old has started swallowing spit half way through talking but in a really obnoxious way. It gives me the absolute rage

It's a new thing too which makes it even more infuriating

Jesus ignore me, thought it said DH in the title! Bed time 😭

This sounds remarkably familiar.
There is a lot of "I'll leave one small piece of food in the packaging so I don't have to put it in the bin" behaviour here as well

I can barely breath I’m laughing so much 😂😂😂

I know it wasn’t intentional but THANK YOU 😂😂😂😂😂😂

DD2 and DS had a screaming game when they were ca. 7 and 5. The one who could scream for longest without breathing was the winner. It was truly awful.

Now 9 and 7. DD2 said the other say, "hey, remember our screaming game?" I was like, "Don't even think about it."

"I can't believe you let us do that."

"Why do you think you don't do it any more?"

"How'd you stop us then?"

"I told you that you wouldn't get anything apart from bread and water until it had stopped for good."

"That's CHILD ABUSE!"

Strewing their possessions all over the fucking place, especially the Sacrosanct Sideboard, the only flat surface in the house without crap on it. Can I not just have one crap free surface....just one???

And having to be asked eleventy billion times to do the simplest things, and not doing them until I shout, and then getting arsey because I'm shouting at them 🙄 It's so draining.