OK. You did it. You lost your temper and turned into a Hulk, a witch, fiery-dart breathing dragon, and you crushed your little loved ones’ 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. The angry words came out faster than you could catch them. And now you feel horrible. You are the worst mother ever. Your poor terrified kids would be better off in an orphanage than living with you. They cry. You cry. And the worst part is, this is a normal day.
Mommy rage. We know it’s bad. What we don’t know is how to change ourselves into the patient, loving, long-suffering, unflappable mother we long to be. All we know to is to try harder. Next time we won’t let ourselves get angry. We’ll show more self-control. We won’t ever let ourselves act like that again. But we do. You may have been a calm, serene person BC (before children), but somehow kids help us discover the temper we never knew we had.
Things kids do that push the anger buttons:
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