Mum with two ‘obscenely behaved’ toddlers asks for help after they slap her and tear down curtains
These two sound like more than a handful
This mum’s life sounds like a nightmare
A mum at her wits’ end with her two ‘obscenely behaved’ toddlers has reached out for help online following a nightmare day where the two terrors not only slapped her in the face but also tore down a set of curtains, all while endlessly screaming.
The mother of the two toddlers, one aged 18 months and the other two-and-a-half, explained the situation in a post on Mumsnet. She asked: “Am I being unreasonable to think not everyone gets it this rough?”
Outlining the situation, she said: “Oldest not walking when we got to town, having to carry them both into the bank, them screaming all the way home from the bank.
“Then shouting ‘where’s the remote’ repeatedly whilst I microwaved beans and made scrambled egg and cheese, youngest screaming banging cupboards and my legs whilst I made it, putting it down for them on the table and oldest screaming about the remote still.
“He refused to come to the table so I brought him there and he slapped me three times and scratched me. How I am starving because they ate my breakfast I made, well licked it, and now I want food but I have to sort them out first.
“Then youngest is covered in beans along with the table so everything need to be cleaned. Oldest refusing to eat anything even though he’s hungry, and to top it off they’ve now ripped the curtains down from in the kitchen and are running around the table chasing each other with it. There’s food all over the floor and table it’s going to need a wash.”
After sharing all of this frustration, the mum then asked yearningly: “Why is MY life so loud? Why can’t I have MY old life back where I could fulfil tasks in their entirety in silence? This is obscene, why aren’t videos of this used as contraceptive?”
However, other mums couldn’t see the behaviour as that unusual. Replying to the post, one wrote: “Sounds like typical child behaviour to me – that’s why I don’t have any. They’ll grow, soon.” A second more harsh mum said: “Well that’s kids yes, the thing is you have to teach them not to act like that. If you’re not actively parenting them they’re going to act feral. It’s tedious but with enough parenting they do grow out of it, if you just give in and let them carry on they’ll get worse and worse.”
Some offered kind words of support though, with one saying: “It will get better. You have to hold on to this. Use childcare as much as you can. This incredibly hard phase will be over and sooner than you think and your kids will become reasonable and fun.”
