I have days like these when I am just angry, nothing seems to work, long walks to try and walk it off, sitting down and breathing. I am just an angry person on these days.
With that also comes a degree of impatience, now I am not the world’s most patient person, but with a four year old, you have to bite your tongue and just go on. However it does seem on these days my son is on top form to push every button he can.
Although it might just feel like that because, well you know, I am angry.
On these days we have lots of time outs, mainly for me. My son find’s it highly amusing to put me into times out for things like breathing wrong, hiccuping, but this is one of the ways we have found to cope, lots of distraction helps. Because its not my son’s fault I am a moody bitch and I shouldn’t take it out on him, yes I might come across as a little curt at times, but this is much better than yelling, which is what I want to do.
To everyone
Anger is horrible thing. My wife has anger issues. It isolates people. It’s emotional toxin. Careful it doesn’t take away what you care about.
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These sort of days, thankfully, happen once in a blue moon, the main person I am careful about it not effecting is my son, which is why we “enjoy” so many times out, we take as many as we need to
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Keep it up. π
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I can’t imagine how it feels, at least you know about it and are trying to cope. Our heads are a weird place…
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mine certainly is π
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Even mine, sometimes I get angry but when I’m not doing much like in the car. When I’m doing something I can distract it.
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I use a lot of distraction techniques as well, but you know with children, when you ask them to do something and suddenly they are deaf till you scream, and then they turn around and go why didn’t you say. That is how my son is today
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Mine don’t turn whatever, they’re like Fuck off dad
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mine is not old enough yet. Give it time
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I hope he doesn’t, it breaks your heart
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I think with teenagers today it comes with the terriority but we shall see
*bug hugs*
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Thanks for the hug, I think you’re right, older kids can be just heartless and cruel. But treat them half as bad… Fuck me they hate it!
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People talk a lot about boundries with toddlers and young children, but I think those boundries need to be a lot stricter with teenagers without it seeming like you are putting rules. Cause you know teenagers brains are rules are made to be broken. At least that is how my brain was wired
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They are like that, putting rules in is next to fucking impossible
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From what my mum has said she always made me think it was my idea.
But I was really dumb
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I bet youre not. How did she do that?
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I don’t know, it did backfire on her when I moved out at 17 though
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I bet youre not. How did she do that?
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Damn thing sent same reply. Well at least you we’re out of her hair! Lol
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LOL yep maybe it didn’t backfire as much as I thought
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Doesn’t sound like it did
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I went back to live with her 10 years later π
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Had you grown up by then?
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oh god no, that was during the worse drinking stage
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So she was looking after her drunken baby girl… bless her. How bad was the drinking stage?
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I think by that stage I was hitting 2-3 bottles of wine a night, I nearly set her house on fire at least twice, by cooking something then passing out, it was bad
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That is pretty bad. What made it stop?
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pregnancy, kinda does that to you. I did start again once I had finished breastfeeding, but when you have an active child trying to keep an eye on them with a hangover, is not ideal, so till he is 18 (maybe longer) I have had to stop
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I imagine you might have grown out of it by then?
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Nop, still struggle with it on a daily basis. I have enough bills to make sure I have no spare money though. Silver lining and all that π
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I can understand that… must be a,struggle… night x
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