Anyone else struggling to do everything??

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4 kids to homeschool. Feed. Keep entertained. Referee the arguments.

It's just so much pressure.

Added in top of my massive anxiety about everything that's happening anyways

And tidying up too. Plus the animals we have.

The holidays I can cope with. There's no school work. We go places. And there's an end in sight.

But this....

OP.

I'm struggling to work from home - I have deadlines to meet but it's so difficult to focus with all this stuff going on.

Yup struggling to work and homeschool my kids.

Hats off to anyone working from home too. I can't imagine the stress :(

I don’t have kids, but still finding it hard losing my typical routine

Yep. Tried to do 30 minutes work this morning which was a task that needed concentration, set kids up with something but they were fighting and not doing as told. I had a melt down, DH had to step in. This was all before 9.30.

I’ve given up a bit this afternoon. I have to do an online meeting at 3.30. They’ve done a bit of work. I’m finding it all so stressful and keep crying. DH not helping and keeps asking ‘what’s the matter with you?’. I mean!

This feels like the longest week ever and it’s only Wednesday.

What ages are your dc op? What has the school said about work or offering support? As I understand my dc (primary) aren't expecting parents to perform miracles with regard to school work .

Yep me too. I have 8 and 6 year old plus a newborn. Home schooling is going terribly, house is a mess, kids won't stop fighting and DH is still having to work.

Same. It's nap time and don't know how I'm going to push on with round 2.

I was just saying this to a friend earlier. She lives alone and is feeling quite bored.

I can’t find time for anything! Supervising homeschooling, one with SEN and a lazy teenager, is taking up all my time!

The house will be a bomb site by the end of all this!

Yes! Supposed to be working from home and homeschooling. Feeling like I’m not doing either very well

I am finding it difficult to keep one busy while I teach the other. One is 8 and one is 5, so when I am teaching the 5 year old I have work set for the 8 year old.

The problem is the 8 year old does it so quickly and is asking me to check it after 5 minutes, then i'm not getting to teach the 5 year old as much. The work I set is either too easy or too hard, too.

Couple that with the emotional toll it has taken on them both. No routine as much as I have set a timetable, not seeing their friends, frustration from the eldest because they don't want to ask for help in case I think they are stupid

Finding a balance is hard!

I have two preschoolers and am desperately trying to find work having lost 2/3 of my clients. I can work online but everyone is so worried about money that they are cancelling my services.

Feels like such a stress and a juggle

Yes.

And we have to carry on working - we're farmers and in the middle of a huge building project that is so stressful at the best of times.

I've cried virtually every hour today.

I only have two, and one is a self-motivated 13yo, but just having to support the 9yo at the same time as fielding work stuff is challenging enough. I take my hat off to those with lots of younger DC.

We are doing 45mins on, 30mins off, as it's the best we can manage.
And in the evening when I'd normally do housework I will be catching up on work so we are living in squalor. Go us.

In a way, having 4 makes it easier as they can entertain each other when I work.
I think I would have found it harder when my eldest was an only he would have needed my input more frequently.

It is tough though - I’ve had to set strict limits on my wine consumption!

Struggling big time. 2 DC, one preschool age and one junior age plus DH working from home.

The age gap between my two DC is proving a problem as I need to help the elder one with school work but at the same time keep the younger one entertained. I just feel a failure at both. Also trying to keep them away from DH who’s working from home. This caused a row actually. I feel I’ve done a pretty good job of keeping the DC out of his way considering we have a tiny house and the younger DC doesn’t really understand the situation. But today after lunch (we take ours at same time as DH so they can see him) we came in from the garden to take our shoes off and get back to work literally one minute after DH and he said ‘you’ll have to get out of here in a minute. I’m back to work’ and for some reason I flipped. Maybe because I’m exhausted, this cough has been keeping me awake at night and the DC wake me before 6am. Maybe it’s because I’m stressed by trying to homeschool one dc and play with the other simultaneously. Maybe it’s because I’m stressed that I also have to make us all lunch and dinner and clear up whenever I can possibly spare a minute (like when they’re out playing at lunch break) all the while carefully rationing food. Or maybe it’s because I don’t like being told something I already know. I KNEW we had to get out of there because he was working and that’s why we come in to get our shoes off and go back upstairs to work. I flipped and slammed a door and called him a name and he called me an idiot. I cried. It’s all so ridiculous but I’m just really not coping.
And also I don’t think I am an idiot. Yes I may have overreacted due to circumstances, but still.

for everyone!

Oh and the house is a shit tip. I guess I’ll be cleaning at weekends. Something to look forward to!