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[quote=Anonymous]I am a SAHM to three, two older toddlers and a preschooler. I am able to handle my days okay with no help. But the evenings are awful. My husband is scheduled to get home at 5:00 but in reality he gets home around 5:30-6:00.

Toddlers nap from 3:00-5:00 but lately it's been 3:00-5:30 because of husbands arrival time

I prep most meals on the weekends and finish cooking right after nap time.

When husband gets home. I am in the kitchen. We get kids up and he watches them while I finish cooking. But the screaming... he cannot handle them so they fight and scream and my nerves are totally fried.

He also cannot get dinner together so I don't know what to do. I feel like I need to be the one preparing meals and keeping the schedule on time. What can I do?

Yesterday we agreed going forward he would prepare dinner while I managed the kids. I cooked dinner in the afternoon, he heated it up at dinnertime and everything ran smoothly.

Tonight, I handled the kids as we agreed yesterday. I didn't want to be accused of nagging so I let him do dinner at his own pace. But 30 minutes before bedtime he had still not made any moves toward feeding the kids, so I just did it. They screamed of course while my attention was away from them. He sat on the couch on his phone and occasionally yelled at them to stop screaming. I could cry.. What can I do to stop the screaming. My nerves are completely frazzled.

Is it normal that they fight and scream all the time if I am not completely engaged with them?

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