If a room is dark and scary, turn on the light - how hard can it be??!!

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Aaaagggh. Queue me shouting "just turn on the light" repeatedly like a fish wife.

Lost the plot tonight. I just find some of these things that I know he can't help so infuriating.

That is all. Just needed to get it out

have a or

i hear myself shouting 'it's a bloody sock, on a bloody foot, does it matter which one goes on 1st' on a regular basis

I understand your pain! Hence having a lovely big glass of wine :) Been explaining when next Saturday is to DS2 (having a sleepover at cousins) and it is so hard...Oh I sound a bit mean now dont I?

It seems as though I am forever shouting "No!" "Dont do that", "sit down" and hypocritically "stop shouting!"

I know it's not his fault he is the was he is, and I hate myself for it.

Not just me then feeling frustrated today then

No! definitely not alone! Been a looong day :o

Nope, not alone.

It's been a long day here too and made worse because I got up too late to give him his meds so he's been bouncing off the walls all day.

I cant wait for thier bed time so I can get on with some chillin housework.

Ohhhhh Ben10 I'm with you!

"Just brush your teeth. No, do it yourself, you're a big boy. Yes, I've put your cup of ribena by your bed. Yes, I love you. Yes, I will tuck you up. Yes, I'll waft your duvet over you and make sure it is specifically straight at the bottom. Yes, I'll leave the light on." (Even though you could do every single one of these things yourself!)

And in the morning I'll listen to you say:
"Ask me what I dreamt about"
"Say you love me"
"Ask me what I want for breakfast"

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

I bet that litle triad of sentences being repeated every day was sweet for the first week......... :)

Get it out Imogen - it is good for the soul,.

I would have eaten your dinner

If I have to say get back in bed one more time!!

How about "no I will not teach you to knit now its bedtime and I am doing something else. "
"No I have already said that now is not the time to ask to learn to knit It is bedtime and I am busy."
Leave the room, get followed, repeat above several times.

DS (nearly 11) has now given up hugged me said goodnight and gone to get into bed.
He is getting it - it just takes lots of repetition. (he did have go at trying to remember how to knit and get cross with it in the meantime then fall over the boots tucked miles away by the wall in the hallway when he followed me round the house and get cross because I had left my boots "out" though.

It won't kill you to put your polo shirt on before your trousers......

Ben10, that's made me laugh out loud.

This thread has made me laugh , I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels like this.

In our house if you don't put every light on in the house (as he couldn't possibly do it himself ), put his clothes on in the specific order, or ask him his questions the right way (Tales I had a chuckle to myself imagining our dc having a conversation with each other!), then you risk being told "You are not my best friend!!!"over and over and over and....

A lot of good ones on this thread. One day of difficult behaviour can drive any mother insane, but when it's repetitive...it's like Chinese Water Torture.

One day, my son will brush his teeth, alone, without me having to clamp his head inbetween my knees and do it for him.

At the recent review with the school nurse, I was asked "does he brush his teeth twice a day". I laughed in her face - very rude of me

This is all so familiar - except thankfully the being woken in the night part - we get to the stage where my instructions are a list of words

so I'm at the door and its DS Hair, Coat, Shoes, Bag (not one list, one after the other of course) every single morning.

Then he'll do something occasionally to shock me like getting up and dressed and downstairs for breakfast before me, eat, go brush hair and teeth and then ask if there is anything else he can do. It does give me hope for sometime in the future that he will learn how to organise himself.

BUT the repetitive noises, the singing-which is tuneful repetitive things he makes up.... AGHHHH......

the repetitive noise, the noise - aarrrggggh!

zzz 5??? One is plenty for me! In my defence Saturday was a very long day so am not usually so lushy. I never get to the bottle of the bottle of cider before I fall asleep anyway - I really am a cheap date

Had to laugh at this thread, but mainly because I could see our lives in it as well!

There are days when I think I could just record myself and play it back morning after morning, as I seem to spend every morning getting ready for school just repeating myself over and over again. "put your school shoes on.. no, not your wellies... what do you mean you don't have any socks, I just helped you put them on 2 minutes ago? ... arrrrrgggghhh! where are your socks? how could you lose them in 2 minutes?!?! okay there they are, yes I'll help you put them on... yes they ARE on the right feet... where are your school shoes, they were RIGHT HERE a minute ago... NO, you CANNOT put your wellies on! oh here are your shoes behind the sofa... hey, where are your socks?!?! " ..... sob sob