Should I run away from home?

Question

My kids are driving me nuts fighting with each other constantly.... Usually it's my daughter that starts most of it. She is 13 and my son is 10. She can be really mean... she's clever too. She says things to torture him when I'm not around. Sometimes I wanna be the one to run away from home LOL........

Answer 1

OH I fell your pain. I have a 15 year old boy and a 5 year old girl who are driving me nuts. My husband has been relocated to Texas, we are in California, so I'm all alone with the two of they taunting each other all day long. And they both do things to each other while my back is turned. i love them both so much but when they are together they are like people I don't know. I told my son i was going to take a vacation to Hawaii without either one of them because I couldn't take their snipping anymore. And he told me I'm to old to run away from home. Hope this helps, hearing your dilemma at least makes me fell like I'm not alone. Want to go to Hawaii??? Hee Hee...Good luck. :-)

Answer 2

I know exactly what you mean, but I have 2 girls 13 & 11 and a boy 17. My girls are the ones who drive me crazy. Just look at them while they are sleeping, see how nice and sweet they are? I threaten them by saying I am going to run away, but after a few minutes go by my youngest will come up to me and say mommy don't go away again. Just over a year ago I left them to do 6 months in county, and when she reminds me, boy can that hurt.
Then I realize that I don't want to be away again. On the other hand some days jail doesn't seem so bad. Really, you end up missing all the noise they make because all of a sudden there is no screaming or that screaching sound as they call out MOM! Thats when you say , if you say MOM again I will scream. Maybe you can find a way to lock yourself in bathroom and put on the headphones to drowned out all other sounds and relax in the tub
for at least 1 hour. But if you are like me without many friends or
family that is kind of hard to do unless they are asleep. If you
discover that running away works best for you, then get back to me and I might try it after all. Good Luck!

Answer 3

hi from France,
I don't know when you get divorce but I think you kids lost their point of references. You may give them some new rules.

But DON'T RUN AWAY FROM HOME!!!!!

If you kids are driving you nuts it's because their are trying you as the same way when kids got 3 years old and their are trying until where their parents are going to be nuts. That's why their always have quarrels.
Don't let go.
You are their mother and their are your kids.
you daughter is a teenager but she must understand that every days in life kids need of their mother.
I'm 33 and I always need of my mother.
Take a break, only with you daughter, go shopping, ride bicycle or horses, do some new things and do the same thing with your son and speak with them.
Sometime it's good to break down and to cry in front of your child because at their age, they can understand your feeling.
Go on picnic with your kids!!!
Show them that you still a family.
You must be strong!!
Good luck and take care of yourself and your children, your a great mother.

Answer 4

How much time do you take for yourself? Do you have any hobbies? You need to reconnect with yourself. Don't make your whole life about your kids, find yourself again. Is your teenage daughter involved in anything extra-cirricular? Piano, dance, art, singing? She might need a few hobbies of her own to keep her from bothering her brother. Get her involved in something too, maybe you 2 could take a class together at an arts and crafts store. Good luck! Just remember, this time goes so fast even if it seems like an eternity.

Answer 5

I think you just need a good vacation. Don't ever leave your children. That messes them up for life, and I don't think you want to be responsible for that. Take a couple of girlfriends (NO CHILDREN) and take a weekend or week if possible and do girl things. Go to a spa, the beach or anyting to relax! Also how are your kids disciplined? It sounds like they aren't. But I remember being those ages and fought with my siblings, and we're the closest we've ever been today. (as adults) Take your daughter aside and explain to her that she needs to treat her brother nicer, and if she doesn't she will be grounded with no phone. That always worked for my sisters and I. Good luck!!

Answer 6

haha no don't. i drive my parents INSANE fighting with my sisters. i'm 16 and they're 18 and 21 and we still fight like we're 10. they'll grow out of it, after i have a fight with them, we usually end up talkin 20 minutes later. my guess would be they'll stop in about 4 years so until then, keep some aspirin close to you, and good luck. but NEVER run away, you gave them birth, they're your kids, what more could you ask for?

Answer 7

My guess is, the little brother provokes it. You should tell your daughter not to behave that way, but a little bullying will help your son deal with jerks in the real world. Having her around might make him a little more clever.

Answer 8

No, you probably shouldn't run away from home permanently, but you should go out for a night and try to forget about your troubles for a few hours. When you get back, you'll be able to look at all your problems with a new perspective.

Answer 9

Well, obviously you shouldn't run away, you know that, you silly goose! I think you should get counseling for your kids, both seperately and as a family. School is starting very soon and often schools have counselors, so that's very convienient. If you hear your daughter saying something mean to her brother, take away one of her toys or electrnics or something, and tell her that she will get it back once she apologizes to him/ won't say anything mean to him again. Good luck, girl! =)

Answer 10

Yes!
of course you can run away !
Let their father take care of them while you lay on the beach in the Bahamas drinking a nice cool tropical drink of some kind and listening to Reggae .

* ohhh and change your name so the kids don't find you.....
most of them can track a parent better n a bloodhound.