Seriously Can't Sit Down...

[Heidi]

So, if I sit down at all...inside, outside, on the floor, on the couch, wherever...all the kids HAVE to sit with me. Cute...but annoying.

I am constantly repeating "go play"

Sure...I'll cuddle for a minute, I'll lead a few activities, I'll play along occasionally...but I hate that I can't sit here for a minute or two, or 20, and they are all hanging on me.

Sometimes, I just want to sit with my coffee and supervise them. As soon as I do...there they are. WHY CAN"T THEY JUST PLAY?????

I'm not really looking for solutions..but it's Friday and I don't whine too often, so I thought I'd take my turn!::

[Heidi]

38 view and not a single comment. I think there must be a lot of eye rolling going on! ::

[daycarediva]

That would annoy me! I only have one clingy kid, and I can usually get him to sit (right)next to me. Of course he is the first one here and the last one to leave everyday. He also says "Hi" to me 100x a day, and says "Whatcha doin?"

It goes like this:

dcb comes into kitchen where I am cooking lunch. Clings to my leg.
dcb : "Hi whatcha doin?"
me: "Hi dcb! dcb can you find something to do while I finish cooking lunch? get a puzzle"
dcb: "whatcha doin?"
me: "cooking lunch, get the puzzle and you can show me how you do it"
dcb: "ok" (entire conversation with him clinging to my leg)
dcb brings puzzle into kitchen, grabs my leg.
dcb: "Hi whatcha doin?"


^ rinse and repeat. He's cute but OMG! LOL!

[justgettingstarted]

I have pub-height chairs at my kitchen counter/bar, its my only escape

[Hunni Bee]

So, if I sit down at all...inside, outside, on the floor, on the couch, wherever...all the kids HAVE to sit with me. Cute...but annoying.

I am constantly repeating "go play"

Sure...I'll cuddle for a minute, I'll lead a few activities, I'll play along occasionally...but I hate that I can't sit here for a minute or two, or 20, and they are all hanging on me.

Sometimes, I just want to sit with my coffee and supervise them. As soon as I do...there they are. WHY CAN"T THEY JUST PLAY?????

I'm not really looking for solutions..but it's Friday and I don't whine too often, so I thought I'd take my turn!::

I've suffered with this ailment for years. It only gets better if you have a bunch of rowdy boys, but then you don't GET to sit down so I guess that eliminates the other problem

[SilverSabre25]

I know the feeling...believe me, I know the feeling. It's gotten better, but now I"m suffering from,

"Miss Silver, I love you." 100x a day. and then when I respond everyone else has to say it...individually, and be responded to, individually.

"Mommy, do you know how much I love you?" This is my DD and it's a like, five sentance exchange that if I try to skip she protests.

And then the babies who can't stand to see me holding the other one and won't tolerate me holding both at the same time...aiyiyi!

[My3cents]

I teach them about my space. Get out of my bubble, give me my space, too close, back up. They tell each other they need their space at times too. It is funny. It works.

Best-

[EntropyControlSpecialist]

I teach them about my space. Get out of my bubble, give me my space, too close, back up. They tell each other they need their space at times too. It is funny. It works.

Best-

I've said something similar twice now.
LOVE that child, ADORE that child, but I need space sometimes. Just a smidge.

[Blackcat31]

So, if I sit down at all...inside, outside, on the floor, on the couch, wherever...all the kids HAVE to sit with me. Cute...but annoying.

I am constantly repeating "go play"

Sure...I'll cuddle for a minute, I'll lead a few activities, I'll play along occasionally...but I hate that I can't sit here for a minute or two, or 20, and they are all hanging on me.

Sometimes, I just want to sit with my coffee and supervise them. As soon as I do...there they are. WHY CAN"T THEY JUST PLAY?????

I'm not really looking for solutions..but it's Friday and I don't whine too often, so I thought I'd take my turn!::

Take the hula hoop idea from this forum and get yourself one. Sit down inside and do NOT allow any of the kids to sit inside the hoop with you.

Soon they will go play because sitting outside the hoop when you are inside is boooring.

[MizzCheryl]

Me too!
School kids are worse than the preschoolers. They have to have constant attention.

[providerandmomof4]

I sometimes feel guilty because the kids make me feel like such a meanie if I ever want to sit still for a minute. It's like their cue to start saying things like, "what should we do...I'm bored" Really? Do I have to be leading an activity every one of the 540 minutes that you guys are here? Blah! I find myself standing in the kitchen staring out the window for a few minutes of me time...TGIF!

[Heidi]

Yeah...and it's not like something you can talk to the parents about...Ummm...your child is bugging me too much! :: I mean, it IS my job and all...


Someone said school age was the worst, and I'd agree. The girl who eats almost NOTHING I cook is 8. She ALWAYS chooses to the moment 2 other kids are crying to ask sweetly "soooo...what's for lunch?" Nap time is getting old, too. Every 5 minutes, in a room full of toys with her own TV AND access to anything she wants to bring from home. bathroom...drink of water....just wanted to say "hi"...bathroom...drink of water...who are you on the phone with?....drink of water....just wanted to "hi". arrrgggggg Gosh, and then she tells mom I yell at her.... Well, no...but I did give her the mean mommy face!

[KBCsMommy]

No eye rolling here!!

The dcg whos mom pulled her out was llike that. Every other kid here could play all day long with out any interference, but her. She was happy to stand at the gate and watch me cook, clean whatever.

I would put out the slip n slide, water table, and pool. Where was she? Standing right next to me!! Kid would cry if I told her to "go play toys"!! Like it was the absolute meanest thing anyone had ever said to her!!

Im with you ANNOYING!!!