the anger is taking me over!
I'm not sure what it is or really where to even begin, my fiance has a daughter whose 8 years old and a son who is 7 , we also have a one year old together and I'm 31 weeks pregnant with our second.....ugh well to start with iv always loved kids....until I had to live with two that aren't mine. It started out ok but has progressively gotten much much worse, to the point I can't stand being around them at all especially SD. I'm not sure if its me being a terrible person or the fact that their mother is a lowlife and sees them when its convenient for her, which is once every few months our so unless we ask for her to watch them and even then its not always a yes. My fiance is working so hard to keep our bills and rent up and that leaves me with the kids I used to look forward to weekends now I dread them bc that leaves me with at least one of the kids ever weekend(DH mother will take one occasionally)I feel like a baby sitter and I hate my job...SD doesn't listen for shit I repeat and repeat and repeat and she just ignores me thinks she can get away with anything and I like a clean house and she is such a slob SS is angry all the time gee listens a little better but I'm just afraid these kids bad habits are going to rub off on my baby girls and I can't stand the thought of that.just tonight his daughter was eating dinner (they are both slobs when it comes to eating but again more so his daughter) she gets ketchup on her hands and wipes it underneath the friggin table, the day before she dropped a whole plate of food on the floor, when she drinks anything its all over her face after. You tell her to pick up her area and she makes it a bigger mess somehow.....his son just can't stop moving his little ass everywhere that I just want to staple hisass to the chair gah I could go on but I'll save it for another day I suppose. So stressed and angry inside I need help!
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Stop 'repeat, repeat, repeat'
Stop 'repeat, repeat, repeat' and take action. If you're responsible for these kids most of the time, you should have complete authority to discipline them and their father needs to make it clear to them that they have to listen. Sit them down, tell them the expectation, come up with consequences and stick to it. At 8, his daughter should be able to eat appropriately and use a napkin. She should also be able to clean her area. kids that age should be able to set and clear a table and load a dishwasher.
When you constantly tell someone to do something without a consequence for ignoring it, you're nagging. Stop nagging and lay down the law. I find making them stand in the corner for a bit is very, very useful. If she makes a bigger mess while cleaning up - after you show her the appropriate way to do it - make her continue to clean it until she gets it acceptable (not perfect - your expectations have to be fair).
Thank you I appreciate the
Thank you I appreciate the sympathy....its so hard to deal with I don't know how to act anymore my anger has taken me over to the point I can't even talk to them without giving them attitude I wish I knew how to feel some love for them but I don't.....I wish they would just go live with their mom for good. Their mother has four kids two from a previous relationship and the two that are with me....my fiance has told me that the other two who are not his ended up in foster care at one point when they were together and now live with their fathers mother....so that right there shows you how not dedicated she is to her children. I feel so happy when its my fiance my daughter and me alone and as soon as the skids get home my mood changes instantly and he sees it I am afraid he will leave me bc I get so caught up with cleaning that I take it out on them not to mention my hormones are all crazy bc of this pregnancy taking a toll on my body....so the physical pain and stress I have to deal with is breaking me down emotionally and I just don't know what to do anymore I try to ignore them but I can't bc I AM the mother for them as much as I don't want to be.....I even hate when they call me mommy
I feel like a terrible person