{"id":570,"date":"2019-05-17T03:05:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T03:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/?p=570"},"modified":"2019-05-17T03:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T03:05:04","slug":"mommy-rage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/17\/mommy-rage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mommy Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/californiaamericanmothers.blogspot.com\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/angry-woman-med.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/angry-woman-med.jpg.jpg 720w, https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/angry-woman-med.jpg-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo by Petras Gagilas <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OK.\u00a0 You did it.\u00a0 You lost your temper and turned into a Hulk, a witch, fiery-dart breathing dragon, and you crushed your little loved ones\u2019 spirits, you spanked their little bottoms, or maybe you shook, or slapped, or threw things, definitely yelled and said vile things about how awful they are.\u00a0 The angry words came out faster than you could catch them.\u00a0 And now you feel horrible.\u00a0 You are the worst mother ever.\u00a0 Your poor terrified kids would be better off in an orphanage than living with you.\u00a0 They cry.\u00a0 You cry.\u00a0 And the worst part is, this is a normal day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mommy rage.\u00a0 We know it\u2019s bad.\u00a0 What we don\u2019t know is how to change ourselves into the patient, loving, long-suffering, unflappable mother we long to be.\u00a0 All we know to is to try harder.\u00a0 Next time we won\u2019t let ourselves get angry.\u00a0 We\u2019ll show more self-control.\u00a0 We won\u2019t ever let ourselves act like that again.\u00a0 But we do.\u00a0 You may have been a calm, serene person BC (before children), but somehow kids help us discover the temper we never knew we had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things kids do that push the anger buttons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/californiaamericanmothers.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/californiaamericanmothers.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK.\u00a0 You did it.\u00a0 You lost your temper and turned into a Hulk, a witch, fiery-dart breathing dragon, and you crushed your little loved ones\u2019 spirits, you spanked their little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,119,151],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anger","tag-mother","tag-rage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}