Hey, mummas
Im curious to how mothers discipline they're children.
I'm at wits end. I have a 10 year old and a 6 year old and currently pregnant with my third.
My 2 boys are always fighting, my 6 year old stirs and they both back chat me, my 10 year old talks to me like cap after I have let him have sleep overs with friends and I take his friend home, it's like I'm the worst mother in the world.
I'm a single mum and I do everything on my own.
My house is always a mess I can never get it clean because I feel they don't respect what I say or ask them to do any thing (pick up after them selves)
I don't know if I'm just being hormonal or what, but even then it's the same when I wasn't pregnant. Both my boys are happy to be having another but I feel like I can't cope. every day I find my self repeating my self and yelling to the point where I cry. I can't ask anyone for help all that I have are always busy with work.
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They're old enough. Scraping scraps into the bin and rinsing plates to be washed should be a given. My son was a shocker and wouldn't do it so I left his porridge in his bowl once and when he got home from school I put some water in the sink and told him to clean it. This happened everyday that he didn't rinse his dishes, I made sure they were good and dried on too. If they don't hang their towel up they use it wet. If they don't pick up their toys they go to charity (or at least to a plastic tub at the back of the shed), not only did I take the toys but I said if his room couldn't be clean he wouldn't have anything to make it messy. I left his bed, school uniforms and one set of clothes for each day of the weekend, I even took his door. After three weeks he begged for it back and the room has been cleaner. If they don't put their washing out they go naked (by 10 my son was sorting and washing his own clothes). Other than that pick age appropriate tasks for chores. Vacuuming, washing the plastics, putting the rubbish out, sorting washing, feeding animals, tidying their room, making their bed etc. I had to nag for a bloody long time but chores are done much more easily these days and I don't have to remind him too often. The talking to us like crap is unfortunately the norm for most and siblings fight, pick your battles and let them at it.