LeeAnn
18-08-2009, 12:26 PM
I need help! I think I am totally in survival mode at the moment. This will be 6 weeks since I started minding and it feels like it is getting worse instead of better. Now I can't even seem to keep the kids even a little entertained. I feel like crying at the mo to be honest.
Tomorrow the schools go back which will make things easier butmore hectic at the same time. I will have nursery runs to do but it should hopefully break up the day a bit and I will only have 1 mindee in the house in the mornings so hopefully this will help me be more organised and less overwhelmed :(
Wouls anyone like to share with me what a typical day looks like?
I know my days arent structured enough but because of the way my hours work I never really know what hours I will be working thw next day which makes planning difficult
My DD is struggling with one if the mindees in particular and is constantly moaning and crying about her being here. The poor wee mindee doesnt do anything wrong at all.
Pile on top of all this my growing bad feeling toward one of my parents who seems to be focussed on asking me for so many ridiculous favours/requests that she is now totally taking the ****. She seems to think I am her personalk assistant or something. The last straw was the way she came into my house today to drop off her DD, she was in such a foul moodm was horrible to her own DD, snapped at mine :angry: and left me with such a bad taste in my mouth, I want to cry and giveher notice :( :(
sorry I seem to be such a whine just now and just feel like I hve made the wrong decision but now I can't change it. I was so looking forward to starting minding I feel like I am failing :( :( I just tried to tell my DH this on the phone and he started saying that I can't change any of it and will just have to get on with it so I hung up on him and have taken the phone cable out of the wall and switched my phone to silent :blush:
My mum has taken my own 2 this afternnoon so poor mindees dont have to listen to DD bickering and whining. They are sat here next to me doing gluing and glittering. I just wanted to spill all of this before I burst into tears in front of them :blush:
Tomorrow the schools go back which will make things easier butmore hectic at the same time. I will have nursery runs to do but it should hopefully break up the day a bit and I will only have 1 mindee in the house in the mornings so hopefully this will help me be more organised and less overwhelmed :(
Wouls anyone like to share with me what a typical day looks like?
I know my days arent structured enough but because of the way my hours work I never really know what hours I will be working thw next day which makes planning difficult
My DD is struggling with one if the mindees in particular and is constantly moaning and crying about her being here. The poor wee mindee doesnt do anything wrong at all.
Pile on top of all this my growing bad feeling toward one of my parents who seems to be focussed on asking me for so many ridiculous favours/requests that she is now totally taking the ****. She seems to think I am her personalk assistant or something. The last straw was the way she came into my house today to drop off her DD, she was in such a foul moodm was horrible to her own DD, snapped at mine :angry: and left me with such a bad taste in my mouth, I want to cry and giveher notice :( :(
sorry I seem to be such a whine just now and just feel like I hve made the wrong decision but now I can't change it. I was so looking forward to starting minding I feel like I am failing :( :( I just tried to tell my DH this on the phone and he started saying that I can't change any of it and will just have to get on with it so I hung up on him and have taken the phone cable out of the wall and switched my phone to silent :blush:
My mum has taken my own 2 this afternnoon so poor mindees dont have to listen to DD bickering and whining. They are sat here next to me doing gluing and glittering. I just wanted to spill all of this before I burst into tears in front of them :blush: