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I don’t know what to do.

As I write this, Princess is throwing an ear-splitting headache-inducing tantrum because Bubba threw away an empty, cut-up, Teddy Grahams box. It had these little cut-outs on the back of the box so I cut those out and gave the boxes to my son to put in the trash. Princess lost.her.mind.

Then as he was taking the trash outside, he started removing a piece of paper that she had drawn on and then taped to our door. That made things even worse. She was sobbing to the point where I couldn’t understand a word she was saying. And you know those stupid little postcards for magazine subscriptions? Don’t even think about putting that in the trash can unless you’ve got a lot of Tylenol on hand.

And now Bubba is pissed off and crabby because he’s sick of listening to her scream. And I get to sit here and listen to both of them scream at each other. I gave up on trying to please them both.

I try to teach my son how NOT to react to her but he just gets mad at me and yells and complains about what SHE is doing. But getting her to stop doing whatever it is she does to annoy him is next to impossible.

So who do I “fix” first? Trying to get Sissy and Bubba to be aware of Princess’ “issues” - she’s an HSC and has sensory processing disorder - and asking them adjust their behaviors is exhausting me. But trying to get Princess not to behave the way she does is exhausting too. Not to mention the fact that when I DO try, everyone acts like I’m “coddling” her and spoiling her and that that’s the reason she acts this way.

I am at the end of my rope. And being single, I don’t have someone else to step in and play referee while I try to get laundry and dinner done.

I am drained and teetering on the edge of depression again.

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