Coping with the squabbles!

[MamaBear38]

I’m exhausted, the kids are squabbling about any single little thing. How do you cope?? They are aged 10 and 8 and it’s relentless. It’s so hard not having someone to tag team with you. And I counted 3 arguments over stupid little things before we’d even got home from school run this evening. And on and on it went. I know it’s tiredness but what do you do?? I grew up an only child so I think I find it especially hard, I had no one to squabble with. I’ve just cried with them both now. I’m tired of shouting and then hiding how I feel. They need to see the impact on me. I work full time in a stressful job and this is just another miserable thing to deal with every evening.

I feel your pain, really I do. Mine are always worse after school time when they haven’t even seen each other all day compared to the weekends when they’re all together. I tune a lot of it out these days and only get involved when it’s really needed. The problem with being a lone parent is that you’ve got to play bad cop and good cop so I find not jumping in on all the little arguments means I don’t get as stressed and feel like I’m always telling them off for things.

That’s a good point actually, I think I’m getting involved in everything at the moment because i just want them to get along. I definitely have noticed that it’s worse after school too. Thank you for replying xx