r/daddit • u/Njdevils11 • 7h ago
Support Well…. I’m starting to lose my shit again. My kids just fucking whine and complain about everything and it’s eating my soul.
I have a 5yo and 3yo. I’m a K-2 teacher and my wife is sn elementary school teacher. I know I’m damn good with kids this age. My wife is a champion as well.
But this is fucking killing me.
They will play together so nicely and then at the drop of a Lego they’ll snap at each other and start screaming. When we ask them to stop screaming, they scream at us, when we try to help they scream at us. When we do something fun like play Mario, they freak the fuck out when it’s over. Doesn’t matter if we give warnings, if we talk about it, or if we just pull the plug. They will find a reason to lose their shit.
We just can’t do anything fun or nice without a goddamned meltdown or negotiation. And EVERYTHING IS S FUCKING NEGOTIATION! Fucking everything.
Put your goddamned pants on if guests are coming over. Why do I need to fight with you about this. BRUSH YOUR FUCKKNG TEETH SND GO TO THE BATHROOM AT BEDTIME. We do this every night, they have literally never not done it, why do they keep trying to negotiate out of it??? It’s literally never worked in their whole lives.
For the past several months my older one has started doing raspberries at us when he’s mad. He knows we hate it. He will say truly awful things to us, his mom more than me. My blood instantly boils when he says mean things to my wife.
The both of us put in SO MUCH goddamned effort to make sure they have a nice house, fun toys, and do interesting things. We are doing chores past 9pm so that we can spend some amount of time together. Then that time inevitably ends in Fuxking screaming or whining. I’m so fucking over it.
And now I feel like a raging piece of shit for typing all this. Awesome.