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Feeling so very guilty

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Feelinglikearubbishmum · 01/04/2021 22:54

Toddler Dd has been overtired/teething for a few days, she just won’t sleep and it’s been hard. She gets really really hyper, running along the sofa, throwing everything, biting at times on objects and generally just going everything she shouldn’t and being in everything. I’ve spent most of the day telling her off and having to shout at times. Dp came home and took her to bed, but she took hours to calm and was bouncing on the bed, trying to jump off and kicking him, he was also getting cross too.
She’s now sound asleep and I’m just say crying with guilt for telling her off most of the day instead of trying to stay calm (which I am all other times as I’m a pretty patient person) also feel guilty because I had lots of payments to make and jobs to organise today so was on my phone a lot,
Just feeling like an utterly shit mum and know it’s not her fault and she’s too young to understand 😪

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Feelinglikearubbishmum · 01/04/2021 22:55

*Doing everything
*Sat crying

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ThreeLocusts · 01/04/2021 23:03

I suspect we've all had days like that. I certainly have. Makes you feel awful.

If I knew how to - being a bit of a Luddite - I'd send you the flower emoji. You're not a shit mum, you're a mum who's had a shit day. You'll do better another day.

Geppili · 01/04/2021 23:05

Don't feel guilty! Daffodil

Rupertbeartrousers · 01/04/2021 23:09

Flowers we’ve all been there some time or another. Tomorrow is a new day, be kind to yourself

Feelinglikearubbishmum · 01/04/2021 23:15

But the shouting at her and getting really cross 😪she was just so wild and hyper...12 hours of it today. I just feel so awful as she’s just two and a half and not doing it deliberately obviously, she just laughed at the time

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Snaketime · 01/04/2021 23:31

Do not feel guilty, we have all been there. I wish I could say it gets better as they get older. I shouted at my 3 year old this morning and my DH ended up arguing with our 6 year old at bed time.

ButIcantsitonleather · 01/04/2021 23:34

Toddlers are really, really hard work. We love them but they truly are arseholes at times. Don’t waste your evening feeling guilty about something she laughed at at the time and won’t remember anyway.

FireflyRainbow · 02/04/2021 00:16

Don't feel bad OP we have all been there. Don't feel bad the next time it happens either, as it inevitably will.

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