The weekend
What a weekend!
It rained all weekend, (which we can't complain about) but it left me with bored, fighting kids!
I tried to entertain them the best I could, but they just wouldn't stop fighting & whinging.
Hallie's going through a little 'bitchy' phase at the moment, i'm not really sure how to handle the situation. She back-chats everything I say & talks to me like I'm stupid - it's a bit hard to take.
I asked her to go and grab the basket of hair stuff today (which contains brushes, spray, hairbands and suncream) and she took the suncream out and left it in the bathroom. I asked her why she didn't leave it in there - her reply (said very sarcastic-like) "You didn't ask for the suncream".
She KNEW that would start a fight - why would she do that?
Last night, I started dinner - the usual rissoles, vegies and mash, and she rips out a tin of spaghetti.
I said "hallie, i'm cooking dinner" - her reply, "it'll probably be yucky anyway, so i don't want it".
Needless to say, she was a very hungry girl by bedtime!
I don't understand why she does this, and she only gets like this when i finally get Dani to listen etc.
So I'm faced with one naughty, one good. Never both at the same time.
It's getting mighty frustrating - mostly because i'm trying to get Molly down for a sleep & it seems like they scream and yell at each other, just to get up my nose. I don't know why - because I can get pretty cranky.?? Oh well. I'm sure Mum will be laughing, thinking it's de-ja-vu with Jessie & I.
Are boys like this? Pinny, did your boys bicker constantly?
Back to school today, maybe that might be the ticket - getting out of the house. Gee, i really hope so.
No photo's for this post - couldn't do much cleaning with the kids cooped up inside all weekend.
Happy birthday Sue-Ellen for the 1st - we hope you had a beautiful day!
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11 comments:
Jen,
They way you describe Hallie is exactly how I behaved as a young-in. Mum, Beck, do you remember this? I remember being very sarcastic and cranky all the time.
Jen, the girl with no bones (down the bottom) is GROSS!.
I did have a play though and got her head stuck! LOL.
Ewwww.
Jen for night times, or when you are putting Molly down, could you be rally crafty and give the girls a job each..
For example, around dinner time, it's Hallie's job to get a stool in the kitchen and peel all the potatoes for dinner. Dani's job will be somewhere else in the house, no where near Hallie. Perhaps she needs to collect all the dirty clothes from everyone's rooms and put them in the laundry so mum can wash them at night time.
Give them a time limit. Show them the clock and allow 30 minutes for their job. Tell Dani that he needs to get it all done before the big hand reaches ~whatever~ time. It may take her a week to be thorough and get all the clothes in, but acknowledge the work she did do and don't point out the work she didn't.
Have a chart for their jobs. If they complete the job on time, get them to stamp a smiley face stamp on their chart. This gives them an outcome for their responsibility. Then they feel like they are pleasing the chart and not mummy. LOL
Reward them at the end of the week, (anything longer than that will bore them) with something small. It may be pocket money or whatever will be a great 'carrot' for each girl. It may be doing something they really want to do or something like $5 pocket money. They don't have to get the rewards chart perfect, lets face it, we all make mistakes and have bad days, perhaps they need only need 7 smiley faces to succeed then gradually increase it as they get better with their jobs.
Trial and error it until you get something they feel responsible for but ultimately it is to distract them from fighting when Molly's trying to sleep.
I hope this helps.
It sounds like you're having a pretty rough trot with the girls Jen, or should I say girl!!! I'm sure that it's just a phase like you said. Just remember to take deep breaths and count to three, it always helps me when I get frustrated.
Love Jodie
wow.....snap. Yeah, same stuff, different girls.I'm sure you'll all agree that these same little girls turned into people who are truly worth knowing. Possibly two of my best friends. 'sob' Now look what you've done...made me all sooky.
So, please bear with the dramas in life because it won't be long before there aren't any and you really miss that part of your life.
Do you agree Pin?
Hi Jodie. How is your family? Are you still in Cobar? I might slip over one weekend soon to catch up with Jes and her boys. I might just spot you down the street there.
wow.....snap. Yeah, same stuff, different girls.I'm sure you'll all agree that these same little girls turned into people who are truly worth knowing. Possibly two of my best friends. 'sob' Now look what you've done...made me all sooky.
So, please bear with the dramas in life because it won't be long before there aren't any and you really miss that part of your life.
Do you agree Pin?
Hi Jodie. How is your family? Are you still in Cobar? I might slip over one weekend soon to catch up with Jes and her boys. I might just spot you down the street there.
whoops, what happened?
Thanks,
Beck - Isn't it funny that you should write all that! The jobs and things that you specified for the kids to do (to keep them amused) are the jobs that i've been having them do for a month now! How strange... Hallie helps with dinner & one of Dani's jobs is to collect all the dirty clothes.
I think we were just having a bad weekend, because the kids have been good this week.
Mummy, that is SO sweet!
I will always keep that in the back of my mind. Because I was a SHIT of a teenager, and I turned out ok...
Yes Suze I DO agree, don't worry Jen, it'll all pass. Beck, your "Super Nanny" solutions sound great, but prolly when push comes to whatever, we just revert back to the old Mummy tactics and bumble through. I always have visions of my lot going to bed throttling each other and waking up next morning throttling each other. They all lived, and are mostly all best mates now.
Oh yay.... the things i've got to look forward to!
Pin, yr so right about bumbling through - and i've only got 2....
I am so amazed that you can do it by yourself Jen.... gives us a new perspective on what our Mum's went through, doesn't it?
When I find myself getting TOO cranky, I force myself to remember how horrible it was that Mum seemed cranky ALL THE TIME, and that generally breaks me out of it.
Having a good sing along to some loud rocky music normally seems to help as well - if nothing else it drowns out the kids! LOL!
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