Right. That's it. I have had it with my children. I can do nothing for them anymore. I am exhaustred. DP returns from work at 6 15. I am going to walk out and not come back,.

[SheikYerbouti]

I cannot copw itrh the constant bickering, the destructiveness, the fact that neither of them will sit still for more thn a second, the getting up in the night constantly, the shouting, the hitting, the snatching, the insolenbce

I've had a about enpoygfh of this shitty existence. I have no time to myself, because if I am no6 with the children, I am at work (a situation that can't be changed either)

I am constantly shouting at them, I feel so much anger inside me, and it scares me. I am scared I will go too far one day and do something awful.

DS1 has pissed on the floor for the nt5h time today. I have justy blown my top and SCREAMED at them. It's constant drip-drip of irritation, like Chinese water tiorure. I can't cope with thewm anymore.

Mine goes to Combe Park.

I'm the one carrying a baby in a sling and towing an empty pushcahair behind me several mornings a week up Newbridge Hill

lol!

I remember it well!

I walk up the same way and then back up dog shit alley - I will look out for you!

Yeah, do.

Which is dog shit alley? There are lots! And is that a local thing, to describe every area as dog shit - dog shit triangle (by St James Sq), bird shit bench (outside what used to be Hagen Dazs)?

By the way if you do see me, my baby looks like a thug at the moment as he fell out of bed and scraped his face. So I'll be the one with a baby in a sling with a hooded head...

My youngest does too! He had a row with a coffee table!

Dog shit alley is the little path that runs a;long the perimeter fence of the RUH, it rus past the back of Penn Lea/Manor Park and ends up on Chander close. It's my fave walk theough - made even better now half of the RUH workforce congregate by the sub-station for a faaaag.

I burst into floods of tears one day last week as I was trying to get the three of them out the door and two of them had yet another row.

Then I was desperately trying to STOP crying and be OK because I needed to settle DD into nursery so that I could get some sanity back and if I was crying she'd never stay without me.

That was not a good day

Hope you're OK today.

I go that way too, and then cut through the RUH, the preschool is opposite St Johns hospital.

Broken up for easter now - have a good one!

This evening enjoyed the weather sitting out at the boathouse, what a great place for combining kids/having a leisurely drink...

It is perfectly acceptable parenting to go and hide somewhere for 5 minutes (if they are in a safe place). They can't get at you and so you won't throttle them (for now anyway). It also helps to stick two fingers up at them behind the door where they can't see you.

When you go back to them, pretend you only speak French or only answer people who end their sentences with a raspberry, etc. Someone eventually will fall into a fit of giggles and lighten the mood. Alternatively put on your very favourite music and sing at the top of your voice and dance like a loon. Even if they don't start behaving at least you've had some fun and might feel a bit better.

Hope you are feeling better. Any day that no-one has ended up under the patio is a good day. X