Tonight I couldn't say goodnight to my child, she broke me mentally and I knew if I didn't walk away it was going to be much worse. I couldn't even summons the mentality to fake it for her sake, I just had to walk away. Please tell me I'm not the only one who has done this (She's five).
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It's ok to be angry at your kids and yeah I haven't always said good night to my child. There are times I've just had to take a breath and walk away
I'm sure most parents have ended the night with "shut up and go to bed!" at least once (or something similar).
My son drove me absolutely nuts today, so I told him I had enough and sent him to bed half an hour earlier than normal.
I went in after I calmed down to kiss him goodnight, even though he was sound asleep and didn't care less.
Sometimes, walking away is the best thing to do to avoid hurt feelings.
Parenting is damn hard. It doesn't make you a bad parent when you get overwhelmed. Just breathe, sneak in and give your daughter a kiss, and start again fresh tomorrow.
Nope you most certainly are not the only one. I swear sometimes my kids know exactly what buttons to repeatedly press and exactly when. The best thing you can do is walk away and take a deep breathe or 2 and count to probably a million lol.
Oh my this sounds like my night too. My 8yo daughter had an attitude last night and it just went on and on to the point where I just walked out extremely angry and frustrated and left her to cry to sleep. This was about 10 pm now and she had been going at me for hours. I also cried myself to sleep. Sometimes I just snap and have to walk away.
You are not alone! My kids break me all the time, especially my 7 year old daughter. And as a single mum I have no one here to be the backup parent and take over when crap goes down. It is okay to walk away and take a breather. BUT at the end of the day I will always, ALWAYS say goodnight to my children, give them a big hug, kiss their chubby little cheeks and tell them that I love them. ALWAYS. No matter how bad their attitudes were that day, no matter what horrible things they did, no matter how much I yelled, or cried, or wondered why I even had kids in the first place. Because at the end of the day you just never know what's going to happen, and I would never forgive myself if I missed the last chance I had to show them some love.