Why is it that when your 3-week-old baby is screaming at the top of her lungs, needing a diaper change and to be fed, your 1-year-old decides to throw his bowl of cut-up hot dogs and bread on the floor and your 3-year-old spills his chocolate milk all over the kitchen at precisely the same moment? At the same time that all this is happening, your 4-year-old decides that he wants to play with the 3-year-old's new Christmas toy and starts badgering the 3-year-old about it. The 3-year-old then starts screaming because he wants his toy back (and he's still covered in chocolate milk), the 1-year-old is crying because he doesn't have any food and is hungry (not that he was eating the hot dogs anyway), and the baby is still hungry and poopy and screaming as well. Then the 4-year-old starts to cry because the 3-year-old hit him for taking his toy. The baby is now getting her diaper changed and is screaming because of the horrible diaper rash she has and the 1-year-old is screaming because now the dog is eating his hot dog and bun that are on the floor (even though he wasn't going to eat them anyway). Your 3-year-old is still covered in chocolate milk, but now is wrestling his older brother to the floor in the fight over the toy.
Sometimes it seems impossible to make it through the dinner hour without pulling all my hair out and running down the street screaming...
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Sometimes... I think the same thing. But just think, that they eventually grow out of the "needy" stage... But don't ask me when exactly that is, and we will have a whole mess of new problems. Soon we'll be doing it in the same state.
Are there any gypsies in your neck of the woods? Typically I hear they are open to negotiations:)
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