Does your child ever just get on your nerves?

itsanne

GwylimT wrote: »

On days like today I would happily sell my daughter to the first bidder, not fussed about how much I get for her,

There were days I would have paid someone to take mine.

delain

Oh yes.

Both my twins have some issues, but the one who has ASD/ADHD decided last night that she didn't want to be on her own after her sister fell asleep so woke her up by hitting her in the face. At 11pm! Obviously sister then begins to scream and wail... Disturbing my 3 y/o as well...

So yeah that pretty much got on my nerves. It was well gone midnight by the time they were all asleep. The summer holidays are just way way too long, kids (mine, anyway!) need the structure of school, they are calmer when school is in.

Sequeena

Thanks for the tip coupon queen We have a set of flash cards which he's just getting into. He doesn't speak other than 'uh oh' and a very rare 'mum'. He babbles like a small baby mostly. He has started pointing at flash cards he recognises like cat (we have 2 cats). He can understand some basic commands too which really helps at times.

He has been to speech therapy and is due to start group session (no signing as they feel he can't cope with it). Hopefully his speech will improve in the near future. He's having lots of tests. They're not sure if it's just one of those things, a result of an accident we had when he was 5 months or if it's genetic (the men on my side have learning difficulties and my father is registered as disabled).

It would help if he slept better, but we battle on. His doctors have said the sleep is affected by his GDD and glue ear.

neverdespairgirl

victory wrote: »

Oh wow I salute your patience:T

Did I say I'd been patient......?

One advantage, we're going on holiday tomorrow for a week, and it's significantly cheaper as most rug rats are already back at school. But it is too long a holiday, really.

Sequeena wrote: »

Thanks for the tip coupon queen We have a set of flash cards which he's just getting into. He doesn't speak other than 'uh oh' and a very rare 'mum'. He babbles like a small baby mostly. He has started pointing at flash cards he recognises like cat (we have 2 cats). He can understand some basic commands too which really helps at times.


It would help if he slept better, but we battle on. His doctors have said the sleep is affected by his GDD and glue ear.

My son spoke pretty late, too, but he's caught up, and now chatters away non-stop. And on, and on, and on.....

He also slept badly - he always has, with no excuses such as GDD (I don't know what that is) or ear problems. He's just never slept well, and woke every night until he was about 6 years old.

Mrs_pbradley936

They still get on your nerves when they are grown up!

zaksmum

Mrs_pbradley936 wrote: »

They still get on your nerves when they are grown up!

Only much more so...!

Icey77

Oh my gosh, yes!!!!

Frog is 17 months old and since Monday when she had a tummy bug she has been whiney, refusing to eat and generally a pain in the neck :mad:

I "know" it's going to take her easily the best part of 2-3 weeks to get over it before any improvement is visible but she is hard, hard work at the moment.

Add in to the mix a DH who has man flu today, the only day I was likely to get a lay in and any kind of break from her (I'm a SAHM) and I am a very hacked off Mummy with very little patience. Bedtime can't come quick enough as far as I'm concerned but I know that it all starts again tomorrow morning at about 5.45-6am :eek:

neverdespairgirl

My Dad's advice when my son was born - "you spend 2 years teaching them to talk and walk, and then the next 20 trying to teach them to sit down and shut up".

persa

TBH, looking back to when I was a kid, I don't know why my mum didn't try to get rid of me! (Or maybe she did, and there were no takers. )

I was an awful child - worse still, not in front of strangers, only my mum - so if she had asked for sympathy, no one would have believed her. I think it's often the way. Good as gold at school, a devil at home.

I'm a reasonably well adjusted adult, doing well for myself in life - and I adore my mum. Nightmare kids do make it through to the other side!

Children hurt the ones they trust the most, remember that next time your one is being a brat. He wouldn't push the boundaries if he didn't feel so safe around you.

building_with_lego

snookey wrote: »

Any parent who says that their child is an angel and does not get on their nerves are lying.
I remember putting my son in his playpen and turning up the music to drown out his crying. It was either that or wring his neck.
When you have children nobody can prepare you for the tantrums,sleepless nights and the all consuming needs that they have.

I doubt the human race would have continued to survive if we had known what being a parent is really like.
In saying all that I love my two.

I used to put mine in her cot and hide around the back of the shed until she'd gone to sleep.
My mum tells me about the time she considered throwing me down the stairs; dad came home and they gave me a spoonful of sherry, I fell asleep and calm was restored.

I think the greatest gift we can give new parents is the knowledge that these feelings are absolutely normal and that it's ok. Just make sure the child is safe then do what you need to do to get past the murderous urge....