Children making me ill.

[GettingUntrapped]

Further to the thread on how horrendous many are finding the combination of wfh with young children, I would like to add to it by saying that being the only adult in the house for lockdown is breaking me. I'm not working, am freelance and taking a break as not possible to work.
It's still shit though.
Kids are so different from adults, and are often selfish, cruel, argumentative and self obsessed. It's normal for them, they are developing.
What isn't normal is an adult spending so much time with children. I find it torturous.
I have two and I feel stifled, angry and irritable inside. They are relentless with demands, requests, need for food, breaking up their fights. Absolutely horrible.
They say it takes a village. There is a reason for that. Human kids are hard work, so hard it can break you.
I feel like we aren't allowed to say this. It shocks people and you will likely get labelled a bad parent, when it is just too hard anyway.

I love hanging out with DC when I've had a chance to miss them!

Constant is just so hard with no room to breathe never mind finish a meal or even a thought uninterrupted.

And yes the media coverage has been disgusting in that the reality of dealing with DC has been totally ignored as if not happening.

With regard to the walk, I don't suppose your children would be interested in Pokemon go? Its a mobile game but you have to get out the house and walk to go collect pokemon / get rewards etc.

With no play areas open or destination to our walks i was really struggling to get my DD out the house without an argument, but she loves Pokemon go. She is much younger than yours though (3 years old).

I do now have to put up with endless conversations about poke balls and charmanders now though.