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?

DS1 - eating with his mouth open

DS2 - ignoring me

DD1 - crying at the boob when she’s clearly hungry (lighthearted, she’s 4 months!)

Leaving shoes, coats, hats, gloves, school bags and anything else they can find all over the hallway floor.

Chewing with their mouths open.

Suddenly finding a million and one things they want to do at bedtime.

Pushing their veg around their plate at dinner.

Putting clean clothes in the wash because they can't be bothered to hang anything up including the pile of clean washing I left for them 😡

7:30 pm comes, and I am off the fucking clock!
Get me a cuppa and pass me the remote, now is my time.

Except then the shouting out for me starts. So I go up and say 'yes?' and in response I get 'ummmm, well I ummmmmm, just was going to saaaaaaay that ummmm.....'
Clearly just playing for extra time.

That, and their inability to just call out 'mummy' when they wake in the morning. It's always said in such a elongated, whiney way, and followed up with another 'mummy' without even giving me a second to respond to the first one.

I've told them numerous times that if the sun is up, just hop on out of bed and come see me, but no....they prefer to make my wake up call as painful as possible.

Me (shouting upstairs): “DSS, your dinner’s ready!”

No reply.

Me (shouting upstairs): “Your dinner’s out!”

No reply.

Me (shouting upstairs): -“DINNER!”

DSS: “oh my god I heard you the first time”.

What the fucking actual fuck.

Stand on my legs and climb all over me!!!!

Sounds like the pigeon in Storks. You should watch it together!

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Leaving clean clothes in a crumpled mess in the floor. I have washed, dried, sorted, folded, ironed and put away those clothes and they just pull it out of the wardrobe looking for something else or decide they don’t want to wear it and then leave it on the door. Gives me the rage

Spending more time moaning about revision than actually revising..

This is silly, but it really bugs me when dd makes random guesses at words in her school reading book because she's busy fiddling about. I don't mind if she can't get them right, but I do find myself thinking that actually looking at the word and the letters in it may be quite helpful when trying to read it! I feel mean saying that though as she does try really hard and is only just in her first year at school.

Bickering with each other. 4 years between them and very different personalities. They rarely get on. Literally cannot leave them in a room together without one of them starting on the other.

Love them when they're alone, but together they give me the rage.

Are you me?

DS leaves his clothes on the bathroom floor when he has a shower. Always behind the door so that when I open the door it bounces off the pile of clothes and almost hits me in the face.

Just one all encompassing issue for me. The fucking WHINING.

Inability to think a thought without saying it out loud and having it acknowledged, however trivial or repetitive. The need to narrate everything they do like they’re the star in a movie of their life.

Moving stuff - they go into a tidy living room, pick up a book, wander into a tidy kitchen, put the book down, pick up a pen, wander off, put it down in the living room, turn on the tv, wander into the kitchen with the remote, put it down…

Inability to consume any item of food without leaving debris everywhere.

The discarding of items of clothing in random places (car, under the sofa etc) which means I have to do a full house search before I can put a uniform wash on.

Leaving lights, tvs and occasionally taps on.

DS:
eating with his hands
wiping those hands and his mouth on his shirt
chewing on his hair 🙈🤯

He is 8 years old, not 3!!

DD:
”my brother did..”
”my brother said..”
”my brother… etc.”

All day long! Taddle taddle taddle

Other than that they are amazing 😄

My dd (almost 4) has a habit of hiding in wardrobes and it drives me insane. No idea why it bugs me so much but it really does.

I feel your pain. 11yo DS constantly calls me bruh. Bit him on the arse yesterday though, when he accidentally called his teacher bruh and got told off for that. Ha!

DD4 Holding my hand and then walking around me in circles.
Standing on my feet, climbing on me, jumping and pulling every direction, for example when I’ve stopped to talk with someone or I’m choosing something in the shop.

Leaving empty snack wrappers or used cups on the table. I've taken to leaving them on her bed every single time she does it. Gives her the absolute rage, I don't give a shit!

I can relate to sooo many of these with my 5 year old. Jumping on the furniture when I told her a zillion times not to, not answering when I ask her a simple question, mummy mummy mummy when I’m in the middle of something, wants everything done now! Also, handing me her rubbish like I’m a dustbin - just go and put it in the bin yourself! Love them 😂

Absolutely this. It probably enrages me so much because DH also does it.

My son (19) leaves the cupboard doors open in the kitchen. My mum used to do that too - always drove me nuts!
I put the upstairs hall light on as it starts to get dark and my daughter always turns it off when she goes up to bed (she's the next floor up so it's not like the light disturbs her). So when it's time for me to go up I have to go out to the dark hall to turn the upstairs light on then go back to the kitchen to turn that light off. Stupid thing but so annoying.

MumMEEEEE…….

this usually followed by 7 “ums” then “can I ask you a question?”

THAT WAS A SODDING QUESTION!

by this point he’s forgotten what he wanted to ask 😂

also, all three kids, if they haven’t thought about food for 45 seconds will be fucking starving hungry. Sure you are pet, that’s why you are 4 forkfuls of dinner.

This is kinda fascinating!
Has she always done this since she was little?

Dawdling. Moving at such a glacial pace it takes forever to get anywhere or get things done. Dd is 9, not a toddler with little legs.

Getting into the shower, after dd has had shower and in bed, to wash my hair only to discover the newly bought shampoo is completely empty!