Thread: Going to strangle my kids

Originally Posted by cabby92

OMG - cut off an arm if you have to, but DO NOT take their cell phones! That is a fate worse than death. I used Sam's the other day to make ONE phone call (when I left mine at work) and you would have thought I was taking a lung.

I know. That is the best part.

Originally Posted by cabby92

OMG - cut off an arm if you have to, but DO NOT take their cell phones! That is a fate worse than death. I used Sam's the other day to make ONE phone call (when I left mine at work) and you would have thought I was taking a lung.

Thats the way my Brady acts about his phone. He bought the G1. And he is very selfish sometimes.

I hear you on this. I ask a kid to load the dishwasher and the very freaking first thing I hear is " its not my day". Now mind you, we have 5 yes 5 kids. so at the most they are loading the dishwasher what, once a freakin week??? please. I was cleaning the kitchen every freakin day when I was a kid. I have told them 541,632 times to NOT leave their clothes in their bathroom.. what do they do????? I am about ready to hang them by their eyelashes.

I feel your pain!There have been times I have flipped out like that and always wound up feeling guilty about it.Don't feel guilty,they are old enough to help out without being told to.The fact that you were in bed should have been a red flag.

Originally Posted by cabby92

Sometimes? If it's only sometimes you are one lucky mom. Share the secret!

Well for the rest of the time he isn't home...LOL.

I've collected almost every toy in the house and black bagged it in the garage......

They still find things to leave all over.....

Next week, I will probably bag the last of it......

Originally Posted by LuvBigRip

Oh, don't get me wrong, they help, when I ask (ok, it is at least 3x I have to ask), but I shouldn't have to ask. If you go to the sink, and it is full, load the washer, if the washer is full, empty it. If you grab one thing out of the dryer, hang up the rest, move the damn laundry. If you take the last soda out of the fridge pack, grab another one and throw it in. If you drain the last of the milk, do NOT put it back in the fridge. Little things through the house that would help me out.

My main gripe is all their crap in a path to the fricken Wii. I took the controllers this morning. I am at my limit in dealing with the total lack of regard for me. I spend half the evening picking up crap that they have dropped through the house.

Talking Points:

That little white thing in every room in the house, you know, with the big hole on top, that is a trash can, there is one in every room for a reason. USE IT.

Boys, that big blue bucket that you practically have to jump over in the bathroom is a laundry basket, place your clothes IN it, not around it. And if either one of you has the audacity to tell me you didn't see it, I am going to superglue your eyelids open.

Sweet, sweet DD, if I hear one more time that you "spaced" doing something I will literally go all exorcist on your ass. Head spinning, neck bones crunching, pea soup spitting, the whole 9 yards. You can remember the actual date that you and your boyfriend met, first held hands, first kissed, what you and he BOTH were wearing on each of those days, and what song was on your IPOD at the time. You can remember every day off you have for school, and when each dance is, I think you can remember that Mom said do the dishes tonight. Really.

When things are placed on the stairs, please pick up your pile, and take it upstairs, I did not place them there as an obstacle course. The screetching tones of your voice as you holler, who left this crap on the stairs for me to trip on is NOT music to my ears.

When my 3 were teens I was of the same mind...I shouldn't have to ask. Thing is, they are children and you do have to ask. It's just the way it is. Instead of getting upset you should accept the fact that until they are adults, you have to ask them to do what needs to be done and hope that the things you've taught them will sink in and as adults, they will know how to keep their homes up well.

Of course, when mine were teens, I had a hissy fit every other day, if not more often, because I had to ask them to do their chores, and ask them to do their chores, and ask them to do their chores, and ask them to do their chores......All three of my kids do a very good job of keeping neat, clean homes for themselves and their families. Oh, the time, trouble and stress I could have saved myself.....