So my sister has 3 kids - 8, 6 and nearly 4. She's a single mother, divorced and works shift work. My mum usually helps out with babysitting her kids but since my uncle passed away this week, she had to fly to tassie for the funeral so it was up to DH and myself to watch her kids this weekend

I don't know if this is normal behaviour for this age but omg - these are some seriously misbehaving children!! They don't listen, don't respond to you when you talk to them, don't do as they are told and are so rude to your face - they mock you when you raise your voice at them.

We are finding it incredibly frustrating to look after them - I screamed at them both days because they were being so naughty and defiant that I just lost it. I know my sister has a hard time with them and smacks them a lot, but we don't have a lot of that in our house, and our kids are angels in comparison!

So is it normal for an 8 and 6 year old to just blatantly ignore you? To seem to be totally incapable of sitting still quietly for more than 20 seconds? Cos that's all they lasted for, then they got up and started wrestling and karate chopping each other again! Not to mention that the 6 year old punched my DS yesterday and the 8 year old punched his brother (6 year old) in the jaw today for looking over his shoulder while playing a toy. They are just so aggressive I'm totally at a loss on how to handle them because they muck up and my kids copy them and do stuff that they arent supposed to do so I end up with 6 kids all yelling, screaming, wrestling or running through my house at once! My kids do listen though but it's hard when they see their cousins obviously not giving two hoots about our rules that we have in our house.

I've babysat other kids the same age and they were totally not like that - so is this what normal kids are like? If this is what my future holds I might leave now!