My ds is driving me fucking crazy!

[Tealady1983]

My ds is 6. He had his friends round to play yesterday we all had a fab day. He has been up today since 5 twittering on and on and on about x and y coming again. The answer is of course the same each and every time it is asked. He is now winging and complaining upstairs (he has been repeatedly told to stay downstairs as dh on nights) and I have a teething baby aaarrrggghhhh just wanted to vent.

Oh dear.

Have you a garden he could go and run around in? Today feels like a day for a big cardboard box, a broom handle and some sheets and lots of imagination... Best of luck.

Hi yes he can go out but doesn't appear to want to he is reading now x

I hear you. I posted recently about my six year old dd who whines a lot...... Today we had a mostly at home, quietish sort of day and I found her very "high-maintenance", even though she is essentially a good kid. She witters on and on and requests lots of attention to her questions and comments......I was getting snappy by lunch time.

However I did suggest that she find an activity to do after lunch, and she chose Lego and worked on it for an hour - so she really is not a hard kid to have, but FEELS like it sometimes....

Maybe it really is a difficult age?......

Oh, I empathise.

4yo DD is being incredibly high maintenance at the moment. I can't even put something in a drawer without hearing "Mummeee mummeee look over here! look mummy! look over here! Come over here! Mummeeeeeee!" If I give her total, absolute attention to the exclusion of absolutely everything else (don't talk to anyone else, don't look at anyone else, don't do anything else) she's happy, if not, it's absolutely incessant.

Tried giving her something slightly challenging but not impossible to do while I got the bloody teaspoon out of the bloody drawer after the ninth bloody attempt (in the same room) - and within seconds I had "Mummy, I can't do it, help meeeeeeeeeee..."

Oh, for a nanosecond of peace. Which only happens when she's watching TV - except it doesn't, because then I get "Mummy can you shut the doooooooor.... mummy I can't hear it properly... mummy there's a fly in here...."

Aaaaargh! I wish I had a solution