Spriing Break Day 2 *venting*

[Beaners_Mom]

We're only on the morning of our second day of spring break and i'm ready to send her back to school.

My oldest SD only goes to school for half a day, but man what a difference it makes. She is 5 years old, the 4 year old b/g twins and my 9 week old stay home with me.

First they woke up fighting at 7 a.m. I have no idea about what now, but they were screaming and crying about something stupid.

So I call up a friend of mine and suggest going to the park. My partner has the car, so we walked to the park that is by the library in case anyone had to go to the bathroom. Yes it was a bit of a walk, but we've walked further before, so I know they can do it. The whole way there the 4 year old girl whined. I had to hold her hand and pretty much drag her. Her brother and sister were fine to skip and run and jump and everything ahead of her.

We get to the park and play for a bit, then we decide to go to the library. The kids were okay there. They did puzzles, we read books, I nursed the baby. It was fun times until my friends 4 year old peed her pants and we had to leave.

We decide to go to my friends house as we hadn't ate our snack yet. Plus it was closer and I knew I could get my partner to pick us up after work. At my friends house we enjoyed our snack of oranges and carrots with ranch. We ate our lunch at the park. My friends mom heated up some leftovers for her lunch and the 4 year old boy was throwing a fit because he couldn't have any. So I told him if he wa going to keep throwing a fit he could stand in the corner. So he goes over to the corner and slams his head on/in/whatever the corner hard enough to give himself a bloody nose. Fantabulous. So we clean that up. He gets out of timeout and I go in the other room to feed the baby. While i'm in the other room he's fighting and stealing toys from the kids. So I tell him to come in the same room as me. He throws a fit and whines the whole time so I made him lay down. He had a fit about that but he eventually fell asleep. While he was sleeping my friends SIL stops over and gives the rest of the kids candy. When the boy wakes up I give him his piece. The first thing he does is go over to his sisters and say "I got a snack and you didn't".

My partner comes and we go home to have dinner. Baby girl wants to eat again so my partner made the kids dinner and he had to leave to go his Monday night bowling league. Ugh. Don't even get me started on that. I'm still pissed he joined this season. I have 3 toddlers and a newborn. He wonders why i'm so stressed out...anyways...he feeds the kids and left some on the counter for me to eat. I get done feeding baby girl and go mess with the kids. We get ready for bed, we play, we read books, etc. It's then that I discover my food has been ate. I ask the 4 year old boy about it and he tells me daddy didn't make him dinner and that he didn't get to eat today. We had breakfast, a snack, lunch, a snack and dinner. He ate. So he lied about that. Then I discover a pile of green beans under the table. I guess they decided to eat everything but those. They like green beans, so that isn't an issue. They probably filled up on my dinner and didn't feel like finishing theirs. I LOVE when they tell me they are so hungry but they throw food away/on the floor/don't eat.

They go to bed and everything is fine. I get woken up this morning to the 5 year old and the 4 year old girl screaming and crying. I go in the bedroom thinking someone is hurt. I ask the 5 year old whats wrong and she tells me that the 4 year old boy was saying they didn't have 2 socks on. Yup. The fight at 7:30 in the morning was about whether she was wearing 2 socks or not.

They are so freaking whiney and it's driving me crazy. They whine no matter what I do. It is no easy trip to walk 4 kids to the park. I took them because I thought they would have fun. We cook them a nice dinner because we thought they were hungry. I just feel like they appreciate nothing. No matter what I do they whine and fight with eachother about it. I'm about to knock their heads together or some crap. We have things to do planned. I know when they get bored they fight, but it's 7 in the morning, we are just waking up. It's almost ike they pick at eachother constantly.

I have no idea how I will survive 2 weeks of this. I just want to put them all in seperate corners and leave them there for 2 weeks.

I'm sorry. I don't mean to whine so much, I just don't know what to do with them. Nothing works. It's like they enjoy whining, fighting, picking timeouts, etc. They can't get along for more than 5 minutes.

[House of Blue]

I deal with something similar... Minus the newborn. I have all boys, a 1.5, twins that will be 4 this week and my oldest just turned 8 (he's Autistic so it adds a spin on things when he's home :laugh: )

I find things get really off kilter when my 8 y.o is home from school on some kind of break or snow day. He antagonizes the twins, the twins antagonize him, the one year old tries to insert himself into the chaos when he can. I'm not looking forward to summer. It take a good 3 weeks to get everyone settled into the new routine and it's exhausting!!! All you do is cook and clean and pull kids off one another (or at least that's how it feels). It really can feel like a thankless job at times.

I hope everyone can find their groove soon! :hugs:

[mommyfrog]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't really look forward to school vacations!! We just went back to school after spring break...thank goodness. My dh actually had to take our 12 year old to work with him the last two days because he was just terrible at home. He broke the lock off the bathroom door then pulled the phone cord from the wall because I was going to call his dad. OIY!! It's over!!:lostit:

[mollypeters]

:hugs: I know it's hard to referee every little thing. Mine are a little older, so my tactics probably won't work for you. While my kiddos get along great most of the time, they do have their days.For these days, i pull out my special arsenal of phrases that they know if i have to use them, i'm at my wits end.
"DON'T MAKE ME FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO!"...meaning if they're doing chores, they don't have time to fight, or have fun doing what they enjoy.

"I'D BE HAPPY TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS FOR YOU!".....this is a lose-lose situation. For example, if they're fighting over a toy or something, i just take it and put it away. See? Problem solved!

These 2 pretty much handle anything my kids do, and often enough are uneeded, but they know i'll do it and that usually deters the unwanted behavior. Like i said though, mine are a little older, so it might be a little harsh for little ones, i'm not sure if they'd make the connection.

[mollypeters]

oops! hit the reply button twice on accident!
:hugs: I know it's hard to referee every little thing. Mine are a little older, so my tactics probably won't work for you. While my kiddos get along great most of the time, they do have their days.For these days, i pull out my special arsenal of phrases that they know if i have to use them, i'm at my wits end.
"DON'T MAKE ME FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO!"...meaning if they're doing chores, they don't have time to fight, or have fun doing what they enjoy.

"I'D BE HAPPY TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS FOR YOU!".....this is a lose-lose situation. For example, if they're fighting over a toy or something, i just take it and put it away. See? Problem solved!

These 2 pretty much handle anything my kids do, and often enough are uneeded, but they know i'll do it and that usually deters the unwanted behavior. Like i said though, mine are a little older, so it might be a little harsh for little ones, i'm not sure if they'd make the connection.