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And I’m terrified. My usual summer sitter is unavailable. The one I hired bailed. Now my back up is a 12yo girl who, well, acts like a 12yo. She’s good for sitting with the kids at the movies while I take someone to the bathroom but otherwise, not so much. I can’t leave her alone with my crew.
K1’s (8.5yo) almost as tall as I am but behaves like an unreasonable toddler a great deal of the time. He’s very impulsive, doesn’t process verbal directions well, cannot just sit when I need to do something for the other kids (for instance, sit through his sister’s dance recital or his brother’s martial arts class), and he has inappropriate emotional outbursts. I have to constantly redirect him and remind him of the expected behavior. K2 (almost 7) is eager to please and needy. He resorts to negative attention getting behaviors if he doesn’t have my undivided attention 100% of the time. And he rarely has my undivided attention because, hello, three kids! Lambie (4) is very sassy. She argues about absolutely everything and tantrums when she doesn’t get her way (not that having a big hissy fit has ever been effective). I think (hope) we’ve finally gotten past the phase where she cuts her own hair but now we’ve moved on to a phase where she deliberately pees in inappropriate places. She thinks these shenanigans are hilarious.
Every time I turn my attention to one child, the other two engage in a behavior that is destructive. I feel like I’m running from fire to fire. They aren’t babies any more. We should be past this phase. I think it’s mostly K1 bringing down the average age of my kids. There are times when he behaves more like he’s 5 or 6 than like an 8yo.
DrK is never home and when he is, he’s barely conscious. Today was really bad; I am so exhausted that I could cry and I feel like I’m just a horrible mother. I’m trying to do fun things with the kids, play Pokémon GO, go to the library, have a family movie night. But they are so uncooperative that I end up exhausted and blowing my stack by supper time. How am I going to manage the summer?
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K1’s (8.5yo) almost as tall as I am but behaves like an unreasonable toddler a great deal of the time. He’s very impulsive, doesn’t process verbal directions well, cannot just sit when I need to do something for the other kids (for instance, sit through his sister’s dance recital or his brother’s martial arts class), and he has inappropriate emotional outbursts. I have to constantly redirect him and remind him of the expected behavior. K2 (almost 7) is eager to please and needy. He resorts to negative attention getting behaviors if he doesn’t have my undivided attention 100% of the time. And he rarely has my undivided attention because, hello, three kids! Lambie (4) is very sassy. She argues about absolutely everything and tantrums when she doesn’t get her way (not that having a big hissy fit has ever been effective). I think (hope) we’ve finally gotten past the phase where she cuts her own hair but now we’ve moved on to a phase where she deliberately pees in inappropriate places. She thinks these shenanigans are hilarious.
Every time I turn my attention to one child, the other two engage in a behavior that is destructive. I feel like I’m running from fire to fire. They aren’t babies any more. We should be past this phase. I think it’s mostly K1 bringing down the average age of my kids. There are times when he behaves more like he’s 5 or 6 than like an 8yo.
DrK is never home and when he is, he’s barely conscious. Today was really bad; I am so exhausted that I could cry and I feel like I’m just a horrible mother. I’m trying to do fun things with the kids, play Pokémon GO, go to the library, have a family movie night. But they are so uncooperative that I end up exhausted and blowing my stack by supper time. How am I going to manage the summer?
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