I need to terminate a pair of siblings who I've had for 6 months. I won't get into detail, but the behaviour is completely out of control and has not improved, and the parents honestly don't seem to care. There was so much screaming and tantrums from the 2 of them this morning that I had to walk away and call my husband in tears. I've been incredibly miserable doing this, and I think a lot of you are right when I posted "does it get better?" in telling me if there is a family that is stressful, to terminate them.

I used to have a backbone, or I thought I did. But I've been a complete doormat to these parents, and I admit it. I've allowed them to walk all over me, I've continued taking their children and trying to enforce consistency with them for 6 months even though my own happiness has suffered, and I've tried to terminate before, when Dad literally walked out the door while I was speaking and I let him.

Anyone have any encouragement to help me grow a spine and give notice today? It needs to be done and should have been done weeks ago, and I'm never going to succeed in this business if I don't do it, but I just can't seem to actually follow through with it. Need some help.