It's fecking hard this parenting malarkey!

[selfaware]

So we have two kids, both adopted, same birth parents but different starts. My son who is 8 is hard work ..... every day, almost every hour I don't know how others cope as I've got a lot of experience and knowledge with children who have trauma and I find it tough going! I suppose this thread is just a moan! I'm getting fatter and older ... I munch emotionally .... yes I do all the recommended things - time on my own blah blah but in reality at times after a day of being shouted at .. you're an idiot blah blah I just want to veg!! If I had a magic wand I'd be richer so I didn't have to work and could afford a private child psychologist but I'm not so hey ho! How do you lot cope?? My daughter who is 6 is a dream 💭 and that helps massively! ♥️💕♥️💕

Don't blame you with wanting to veg out, children can be hard without trauma thrown in.

hugs if there's specific behavioural issues with your son it might help to pop this onto the 'adoption' section which is under 'becoming a parent' as you might get more adoption-specific support. My 3YO is also adopted and can be a regular little threenager sasshole at times and can be quite withdrawn too but on the whole is an absolute delight. Keep going and do put this on the adoption thread. There's some right lovelies on there who will help I'm sure x x x