to be feeling utterly exhausted by DD2 and her list of complaints?

[EccentricaGallumbats]

This morning

I'm tired
The toothpaste is too minty
My toothbrush has scratched my gums
I feel sick
My foot hurts
I hate PE
I feel sick
I can't do PE my foot hurts
I can't find my planner
I feel sick
I hate XXXX
My foot hurts
I can't do PE my foot hurts
I'm tired
My toast is too cooked
I feel sick
XXXX is horrble
I hate my french teacher
My foot hurts
I feel sick
I can't find my blaizer
It's cold
I'm tired
I feel sick
I hate school
I hate french
I hate science
I hate PE
I hate xxx
I hate you
I feel sick

etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

Her foot hurts beause she was stamping around in a temper on monday. since then she has been out riding her bike, walking, running, dancein etc so not really hurt.
Her bag, breakfast, planner, school books and blaiser were in their usual places
I had the heating on so it wasn't cold.
If she went to sleep a bit earlier she wouldn't be so tired.
If she stopped bloody complaining about everything all the bloody time she might realise that her life isn't that bad after all.

I ignore all the above, and have been doing so for years and years.
I acknowlege her moans, I sometimes agree with her. I witter on inanely to try and distract her. I don't give in and let her stay in bed and never have.

What the bloody hell do I do with her?

My daughter is also a complainer! It's come to the point now where I avoid asking her " How was your day?" after school.
I'm also pretty paranoid about her hyperchondriac tendencies. I must only be a nice, kind mam when she's ill, therefore , she always has something hurting, sore or wrong with her.
makes me sad sometimes

Emboldened by a glass of red,

and at the risk of being flamed,

dare I say,

I think you lot are ........

..... whinging!!!

Get up in the morning and repeat the following frases until 9am

dont want to get out of bed
dont want to cook toast again
where have my shoes gone
dd moans
dd moans
dont want to cook tea
dd moans

repeat and never say anything else

if asked a question just repeat the mantra

they soon get the idea

concentrate hard on the dd moans mantra this one is particulary important to chant

my dd1 was, is like this.

at 11, i decided to leave her to it. Literally. I started to leave the house at 7.45 each morning and leave her to get on with it.

she may still moan every morning, but i have withdrawn every scrap of assistance. and i am not here to watch her. she got 4 lates last term- a price well worth paying as it affects only her and not me.

and it is nowt to do with the type of parent you are- it is the type of child they are.

My DD, thankfully, does not complain much but she went through a stage a while ago when EVERYTHING about school was terrible, moan moan moan.

When we got to school she walked incredibly slowly to the entrance and dragged her bag along the ground in exaggerated despair so I said "make sure you have a really terrible day darling, or you won't be able to complain tomorrow."
A couple of the other children looked at me, but surprisingly this worked.

never say BLOODY HELL to a child (angry face)(hihi) writen by nighbynight

never say BLOODY HELL to a child (angry face)(hihi) writen by nighbynight

for etsetricaglumbats

the one writ at the bottom

I feel your pain my eldest DD mumbles at everything when she s in a mood.
She wanders round the house muttering and mumbling to herself like an old lady.
Had to laugh this morning when she mumbled at her toothbrush.

nighbynighbynigh? don't get it?

can you even get non mint toothpaste?

she's actually come home in a sparklingly good mood. told me all about how good PE was. Repeated back hysterical conversations she has had with her hundreds of friends. helped cook tea, sat quietly doing homework without being asked and has just come and given me a hug and told me she loves me.

she is bonkers.

Sorry dd took over the computer while I was making custard in teh kitchen. She seems to be a little annoyed, perhaps because I expressed surprise that someone could beat her in the complaining stakes.

Little nighbynight: it is wrong to take advantage of your mother when she is making you custard.

Unless you dislike custard.

She is too busy stuffing baked apple and custard to think of a smart reply.

Just as well as I don't have any sharp ripostes up my sleeve either.

so what , i`m hungry

Here is Mum: ds2 is being sick. I am going to close the computer now.

Gosh, my 2 yr old has been doing this and I am currently able to giggle it/bribe it out of him or tell him 'I'm not playing until you stop whining' and it usually works but now I'm scared about how it will progress....

(worst of all is the continual request for different clothing, many multiple changes during a day which had me exhausted with preg with DD this summer in a 4 story house).

Could she be bored with the conversations in her life? I know that sounds silly but if it's all routine-y breakfast/school run/bedtime stuff then perhaps she needs some excitement to stimulate things to say that don't involve complaints as showing preferences or dislike for things might be all she feels she has to say.
Sorry if you constantly provide excitement and still get this!

I would say that you refuse to listen unless she gives one positive for every negative!