I have Ds 5 Dd 3, I know its normal for children to bicker and mess around when together so I can deal with that. My Dd is 3.2 and scribbles on anything and everything, if she finds a pen, pencil, crayon, any makeup or anything that can make a mark with, she will. On walls furniture, herself, her brother, anything.
She constantly goes in the fridge helping herself to anything, this is a new thing she never did it until last few months. This morning I leave the room for 5 mins to get dressed and she has covered one of Ds's toys completely in butter and pressed sweetcorn into it! Its like she waits for me to turn my back and causes as much destruction as she can. She will squeeze tomato puree all over the kitchen and if we forget to put the latch on our bedroom door and she finds my makeup she will get as much as she can on the carpet and walls before we catch her.
I've tried shouting, explaining, threatening punishments, naughty step, putting her in her room etc.
Other than this she is a delightful little girl who is a pleasure to be around and we do spend lots of time together alone as well as social stuff like playgroups and child minder.
My son is 5 and has been a handful but he's getting better, although he still doesn't listen to me a lot of the time and torments his sister he is quite cheeky and ignores me if I ask him not to do something. Like his sister he is lovely caring and polite when he's not causing chaos.
Is this all normal? Am I stressing too much? When they're well behaved, I'm confident that I'm good mum. At the moment I feel like a rubbish mum who cannot control her children or get anything done as I have to watch them like a hawk constantly. Thanks