Please no nasty comments as I'm already feeling very broken.
I Have just found myself to be the most imperfect mum.
I am a SAHM with a partner who is always away for work and my children's father only in their life when he feels like it.
I don't smack my children but I do sometimes yell but nothing compared to what I've just done.
My children 11 and 7, oldest being a girl and youngest a boy pushed me to the point I scared myself.
They were in my room on my bed playing around when I heard screaming and fighting, I immediately called them out and asked the problem, my youngest replied with "she was pointing a light straight in my eye" I asked my daughter and she said she didn't, I then asked my son again what happened and he repeated his previous story, again my daughter denied it. At this point I started getting angry that someone was obviously lying. My voice became louder and they started fighting with each other calling the other a liar. At this point (which is where I start breaking both their heart and mine) pushed them both against a wall and started yelling at them to tell me the truth. I never hit them or squeezed them or physically hurt them but the look on their faces showed me I was hurting them emotionally and scaring them both. At this point I was shaking and turned around and punched the wall behind me (not near the kids). I then sent them both to bed and slammed their doors on them.
I then sat down and cried so badly, I calmed down and retrieved my children from their rooms. I cried why I was apologising to them and told them I loved them and why I got so angry and kissed them and hugged them but the looks on their faces showed me I had scared them so much. My children gift constantly and I never find out the truth about what has happened when asked so why did I loose my temper so much tonight??
I hate myself for loosing my temper the way I did, I've never done that before. How do I make this right???
Scared to be their mum...
Scared to be their mum...
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Don't be hard on yourself there is only so much we can take sometimes and we ALL loose it now and then, but you know what sometimes our kids need to see when enough is enough and I reckon by what you said there faces looked like they won't be telling lies again in a hurry, you didn't bash them, just move on and tell them why you felt the way you did they are old enough to understand big hugs