I Don't Think I Can Do This Any More...

[SunflowerMama]

Sixth - do not have to many rules. If you are on task to be the enforcer all day, it just makes everything that much more work and that much less enjoyable.

I'm feeling a bit of the same stress and I think this one might be one of my problems. I feel like I'm always enforcing rules all day long and don't even have a whole lot of time to just relax and have fun with them. I'm new too (started in February) and I really wanted to set a tone that wouldn't allow for them to walk all over me (I'm bad about this) so maybe I just stressed it too much and should just let a few things go here and there. That and maybe some mid day yoga or meditation .

[sahm2three]

It is miserable again today. I could care less about the mess. I would gladly clean up during nap time if I had two seconds of quiet to myself! The 10 month old still won't flipping sleep. Now the 2 year old is up and won't go back to sleep. Nap time started 15 minutes ago. I have had it. I just said to heck with it and have had movies going all morning. No one has watched them, they were too busy following me around crying because they didn't get a morning nap because of the 10 month old. Thank GOD I only have this week left with him. I would much rather deal with the colicky 6 month old!!!

[SunflowerMama]

So sorry you're having another bad day . Only 2 more days and then you can take a little breather.

[Blackcat31]

It is miserable again today. I could care less about the mess. I would gladly clean up during nap time if I had two seconds of quiet to myself! The 10 month old still won't flipping sleep. Now the 2 year old is up and won't go back to sleep. Nap time started 15 minutes ago. I have had it. I just said to heck with it and have had movies going all morning. No one has watched them, they were too busy following me around crying because they didn't get a morning nap because of the 10 month old. Thank GOD I only have this week left with him. I would much rather deal with the colicky 6 month old!!!

That is exactly why I stopped taking kids under 18 months. I had babies for 12 years and felt like you do...it just got to be too much and the more stressed I was, the more stressed the kids got. I quit taking babies and began to love my job again. Now, 3 years after no babies, I have a 6 month old. (I got him at 6 weeks) He is a sibling to a dcb who went to Kindergarten this year. I was careful to tell dcm that if he was colicky or a difficult baby that I would not keep him. Turns out he is the happiest kid I have truly ever seen!! But, I learned my lesson. I will take babies from now on but I will never have more than one at a time and with only 1 other kid under 2. (Total 2 under 2yrs old maximum) The rest are over 2 and I can deal with that no problem. So my advice to you is set some boundaries...do not take on more than you can handle.

Oh, and if these are your own children and not dc kids....then I wish I was near ya so I could offer you a days free service!! Hang it there; this too shall pass.