Kids - just seven and nearly four, been getting on really well on holiday (usual spats) but are starting to gang up on me. VEry bad this pm. LOvley day out to zoo, both got little toys in the gift shop, but on the way home out of control. I stopped at a garage shop for a few minutes to buy something for their tea _ they ask to stay in teh car and promise to stay put. Get back and both kids have got into the boot (easy to do by lifting up central seat). I am calm, say, 'come on monsters, back in your seats.' THat's Ok. but then ds says, 'we were planning to drive the car into the shop or get in the boot'. I'm really shocked and say that is terrible and dangerous and I can now no longer let them stay in teh car when I pop in to pay etc as I had no idea they planned this sort of thing. Then on way home things get worse, including taking off their seat belts and pretending to fall about all over the place. Obviously stop car and bollock kids, who just laugh at me. I say, right when home, to your rooms and no stories and get, 'we don't care. We love being in our rooms. Don't want you to read us stories ha ha ha' (they have never, ever spoken to me like this) I am so beside myself I have to pull up and get out of the car for a few minutes. They are just laughing. IN the end I take the gifts they chose from zoo and give them away to passing family (explain that my kids are getting out of their seat belts and it's totally scaring me, so mum was lovely - thanks if you are reading this!) which finally seems to get through to kids. Dd (4) starts crying. I gt home, hand kids to dh and had two big glasses of wine in quick succession. Still upset and traumatised. Feel like shit mum to have my kids talk to me like this. Don't want to do anything with them for the rest of holiday (told them this too). Just feel very, very down about it all.