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Can't take much more of this

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Stressedandtired · 14/06/2008 09:44

I feel on the edge at the moment. Ds (22mths) has gone in the last 3 wks from being a brilliant 12h sleeper, to waking pretty much every hour during the night. I am knackered beyond belief and feel that I'm just not coping.

It's all come to a head this morning and tbh I've felt like I hate my children and do not want to be around them any more . Dd (3) is being particularly moody/challenging and ds is into everything at the moment. They really are just normal kids but I am feeling so angry and irritated a lot of the time.

To top it all off dh is feeling the same as me but handles it much worse. We have just sat at the table eatng breakfast and he growled at me to stop staring at him! This made me feel quite teary; then dd was whinging saing her breakfast was too hot and he just flipped and started shouting at her and took her breakfast away.

I've just locked myself in the bathroom and spent the last 10mins sobbing. I know I need to initiate positive parenting etc to deal with the dcs, but I just find us all being drawn into this miserable sniping at each other. I feel so guilty that poor dd and ds are being subjected to my moods and dh's temper - they really don't deserve to be exposed to all this anger . At the moment we are crap parents and I just want to run away from it all (I won't)

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Stressedandtired · 14/06/2008 09:50

Oh - and to top it all off it's my anniversary today. Happy bloody anniversary to us

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mufti · 14/06/2008 11:36

its so much harder when you are tired, just seen this ,are you feeling any better

Stressedandtired · 14/06/2008 11:41

Thanks mufti; yes I am feeling a lot better now. Dh has apologised to us and has produced flowers and a card . I think it's the whole guilt element, just feeling so awful when it's not really the dc's fault.

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jkklpu · 14/06/2008 11:45

It's the tiredness that makes everything else seem so much worse. Can you and dh each give one another an hour's daytime sleep today and tomorrow by entertaining the kids, preferably out of the house so the sleeper isn't woken up?

Enjoy the flowers and hope you might have a sitter tonight, though you probably just want to go straight to sleep.

mufti · 14/06/2008 15:04

glad things are better, i think even people who regard themselves as good , or even ok parents, will feel guilty at some point, i think it is part of the package

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