Stress! Need to vent

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Ok, I just need to vent! Last week I took hubby to a docyors appointment that was an hour away from home and my car broke down. That cost me over $200 to fix and we were stuck there for hours. Then the next day my dryer craped out and I couldn't get another one for a few days. Im sick, Jimmy is sick, mom is sick and hubby is sick. And I have to be the one that keeps everything running. No one takes care of me. No one does the laundry except for me. I had to catch up on the laundry today, take care of three sick babys and not care how I was feeling. Plus I have to work. To make things worse I work in sales and I can't sell anything lately. Tonight someone sold $4000 and me? nothing! Im on comission. No one has once asked me how im feeling. Im just expected to keep going. anthony's grades are going down, he is acting up again. I don't know how much I can take this till I run away screaming. Ok ok.....sorry im just babbling. I needed to vent.

I'm not surprised you're stressed, with all that. People talk about troubles coming in threes, but I count eight that have hit you all together. :frowning:

When that happens there's not much more you can do except hang on, do only what's possible, and try to endure until things ease up. Whatever you do, don't try to be superhuman. Rest as much as you can - you need it and you deserve it.

Im really trying to deal with it all. But its really really hard right now. I am very tired. Its seems like I just can't get enough sleep. I have worked 12 days with only 1 day off. omg im exhausted!

I'm sick too. Dam temperature changes.

Ok, today my nephew is real bad. He refuses to do homework. He even ripped up one homework assignment. He has the worst attitude with everyone. He says he doesn't care about school at all. What do I do? I need help!I already took away the tv, gameboy and cd player.

You're stressed too, and that might have something to do with it. Perhaps for tonight you should all just go to bed.For the future, perhaps a rewards system. The problem with taking things away is that you end up with nothing more to take; and if things are taken away too much, he stops thinking that he has them - they become things that he just occasionally has access to, and not having access is just normal. The sort of rewards system I'm thinking of is the star chart - a grid with 10 x 10 cells. When he does something right he gets a star. When he fills up a row he gets a small reward (agreed on beforehand). When he fills up the sheet he gets a big reward (agreed on beforehand) as well as a small one.

Well, he finally came out of his room with his homework all done. And he was being very nice and respectful. He is being a very good boy right now. But he still can not have his stuff back yet.

Well, the rewards and punishments need to be immediate (or soon afterwards) in order to have his actions closely associated with the rewards (or punishment)

Well, its kinda hard to ground him right now because we are leaving for vacation tomorrow. He will need something to do durring the 6 hour drive.