Despite my most herculean efforts, this pandemic is making me into a bad mom. I am exhausted from wft and overseeing remote schooling, hyperactive, emotional children. Some days are good but too many days I snap, and am not fun, and sometimes yell, enact inconsistent discipline, and am cranky, and forget to help their brains grow (etc etc). I still try my best every day but i am NOT bringing my a game any more - I am FRIED. Does anyone else feel this way? If you feel the opposite and that you have killed parenting during covid I am super happy for you - but no need to share in this thread.
I feel like i have a knot in my stomach most of the day bc at this point I am so exhausted and burned out that the effort of trying to be a good parent is giving me anxiety. this is why they say the village thing I guess.
I get it. I had an especially bad week this past week. Totally bitchy mood. Don't beat yourself up. Try the best you can.
DH does most of the school related stuff but this past week, I have been really down about the pandemic, and the lack of hope. Biden isn’t giving any good outlook, just basically doing the same as Trump (upping 900k shots per day to $1M - what the heck? That’s the same thing!). I haven’t been nice and understanding at all. I am not usually funny so that’s nothing new, but I am usually very nice, I think.
even though you may not want to hear this, reminder that this is just as hard for these kids as it is for us adults..their schedules/lives completely disrupted..hopefully we are nearing the finish line hang in
I think about this every night after bedtime. And then I beat myself up even more for not recognizing it during the hard moments from that day. It’s a vicious cycle.
@Anonymous ok well good you realize...kids are not meant to be stuck at home learning on screens and not with their friends..its really tough for them
@Anonymous howl old are your kids and how many do you have?
I feel like a terrible mixture of in over my head, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed, and phoning it in. If you’d have asked me a year ago I’d have told you