If I am being completely honest I was not looking forward to half term last week. It was the first time I was going to be on my own with both of my babies and Little Mr A has been a little sod challenging lately to say the least!
I knew it was going to be a hard week and I was not wrong! Although it was nice to be able to have a bit of lazy time together without rushing around getting ready for school, the constant noise and lack of any personal space has been rather difficult to cope with! I fell out a lot with Little Mr A. I love him to pieces and it hurts so much to argue with him all of the time but it is just so frustrating when he won’t listen to anything! I want my lovely little chap back that we took on holiday last year, not this monster that we seem to bring home from school everyday!
If I hadn’t kept him entertained I could understand him getting bored and frustrated which is usually when he starts to play up, however, I did only the essential cleaning like the pots/washing, the housework I thought could wait a week! Little Miss A was either asleep or laid on the floor entertaining herself so I could spend as much time as possible with Little Mr A. It doesn’t seem to matter how much we do with him, it’s never enough!
I know he is struggling to come to terms with not being an only child anymore but I don’t know what else we can do to make him feel included. He is beginning to play with Little Miss A more now she is getting bigger but some days he is so rough, shouting and laughing really loud right in her face or trying to roll her around and when we tell him to stop he just doesn’t listen.
At the moment all treats are banned. He is having no computer games or i-Pad and no T.V. programmes of his at all. He tried to convince me that Total Wipeout was my programme and that we could watch it, but I wasn’t falling for it!
I am really hoping he settles down soon, I don’t know how much more we can take. I hate to see him so upset and emotional when he has been told off but the nicely, nicely approach just doesn’t work anymore! I feel like I am being such a bad mum sometimes and that he must hate me, but my patience is wearing so thin I can’t help but snap at him.
Having said all that (!) we did manage to do some fun things in between the bickering…
I can’t say I am looking forward to the Easter holidays in a few weeks, however, I am hoping the weather will be nice so I can shut him outside let him play outside!
I hope everyone else’s half terms have been/will be more successful!
Mummy of two 