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I am the biatch mummy from hell!

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thefroggy · 21/02/2012 21:12

Ok, i've posted before about dd being a messer who can't leave anything alone. Examples include getting new clothes out of the bag while i'm putting the shopping away and ripping off the tags and dragging them around before we even know they fit, opening parcels and throwing away the boxes before i've seen if they work...well you get my drift. (I'm not a compulsive shopper btw, i'm talking about things we need Grin).

I've found a tin of sweetcorn opened and put back in the cupboard. A sachet of cappuccino opened and splattered all over the bathroom sink, salt tipped over the kitchen worktops, a pudding opened and shoved back in the fridge to go off, a box of cakes ripped up and cakes shoved loose in the fridge, tub of butter taken up to her room. This is just in the last few weeks but she does it all the time. I've had tins of biscuits at Christmas dragged around the floor to find them covered in pet hairs etc. Of course, i'm having to just throw food away all the time. I can't count the number of times i've told her not to play with food but she just doesn't listen. She'll sneak off and do it while i'm having a bath or upstairs putting clothes away. It pisses me right off because we don't have much money but I always make sure we've plenty of food.

So tonight we were doing pancakes, she was going to help. I was going to cheat this year and bought two "shake to bake" things. I asked her to pass me the bottle and read out the instructions to her. Then she said "oops, I put both of the bottles into one". I said "well, you wont be having pancakes then will you?". She ran screaming upstairs and I haven't seen her since.

I know it isn't a big deal, ffs I can stick it all in a bowl but i'm just so fed up with it. Feeling really cruel now...think I overreacted.

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SparkySparrow · 21/02/2012 21:23

I would have done the same.
I don't know how you cope, that sort of thing would drive me up the wall!
Don't feel bad, she is just annoyed because she didn't get her own way.

Kids are challenging little buggers Grin

thefroggy · 21/02/2012 21:27

It wouldn't be so bad if she was a toddler (well, the tin opening would Grin), or an absent minded teen who had to feed herself maybe, but she's eight!

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ChippingInNeedsCoffee · 21/02/2012 21:30

8 eight EIGHT

It must be the age. My friends DD is much the same at the moment and I fear her dumping her on my doorstep before she throttles her.

I would go POSTAL - she would stop. I do not DO stupid.

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pictish · 21/02/2012 21:33

No I totally understand and have done similar myself. You know it's trivial, but when they are just so impulsive like that it drives you mad!

PurplePidjin · 21/02/2012 21:35

Nope, she's just learned that her actions have consequences. Keep it up!

SparkySparrow · 21/02/2012 21:36

8 Shock

Christ if ds was doing this at eight then I would be a right cow until he got the message.

8 is old enough to know the value of certain things, i.e. food cost's money etc and to learn consequences!

You did not over react - she has to learn one way or another!

TitchVida · 21/02/2012 21:36

Gah! Is this what I have to look forward to? I might skip the child locks and put a padlock on the kitchen door Grin

thefroggy · 21/02/2012 21:56

Latest news from ds is that she's fast asleep. (More than likely still in her clothes). I HATE ending a day like this [sigh]!

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mumeeee · 22/02/2012 10:07

You did the right thing. She knows she did wrong. Perhaps this will teach her to be more carful of other rhings.

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