dd 5.5 and ds 2.9. just totally flipped with the kids ...
kids haven't been listening to a thing we've said all morning, you know the kind where they push it just as far as the can and then stop befor punishment ensues... hence dh having one of those days ... which puts me on edge.
also why oh why did I buy that bl**dy swing? No room for two so kids naturally have to take turns. DD was sort of good in taking turns, ds of course not and when I tried to hold him back to explain (then still sort of calmly) that he has to wait his turn he turned around and hit me, which resulted in me 'kneejerking' and slapping the offending hand a bit too hard. Queue screaming toddler, me trying to keep him a bit quieter because dh in bed trying to catch up on sleep. This whole back and forth carries on for 20 mins at which point I decide... well if you can't share you're not playing and put the swing away. Queue dd sobbing because she's been playing nicely. I did apologise to her and explained that I am aware that she's also being punished but that I think it best to remove the reason for fighting. She keeps having a tantrum though and I get a bit loud which left her cowering on her trampolene saying I scared her to which I so maturely (not) replied : then do as your told, sit down on the sofa and be quiet. I already had put ds on the sofa and NO tv and told them not a peep for 5 minutes.
Then I went into the kitchen and did some more baking, which I won't be able to eat because I'm on diet, but thought it was better to do that then keep giving a good rendition of screaming demented banshee.
Then I let dd chose her programme as she'd been the one 'wronged' but next thing I know ds tries to look what she's doing (she was practicing writing on the side) and she bites his hand! in plain sight of me and then saying she didn't do it! Made her apologise and kiss his hand better and now they're sitting on the sofa snuggled up together.
Tell me I'm normal please and not a total failure as a mother! Because I feel like a complete waste of space as a parent with the amount of loud voicing and odd slapping I'm doing (never believed in slapped bottoms and hands but I seem to develop a trend towards it because nothing else seems to work)...
Rant over now thanks for reading