is anyone else being mean to their children because of general Xmas stress?

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I was really mean to ds this morning (horrendous dawdling in getting ready for school) and I really lost my temper and feel so bad about it now. Poor lad, I feel like an awful mother today!

I did the same, its the end of a long term for them as well as stressy for us

Think it s getting to us all. I am trying to work out how to afford my house now DH has decided he wants another life. Mortgage on my own for more than we paid for the house, for the rest of my working life. Luckily my DCs are all (nearly) teenagers and I think they understand some of the stresses. Sure your son will be fine after school. Give him extra cuddles and a sweet or two?

I am

DS is finished nursery now, he is 4 and he is such a handfull when he's not at school, i have been shouty, slammy door mum.

No more than usual

Actually no, no Christmas stress in our house for some reason. Odd really. Something has to go wrong soon....

Yes!

We are all on our knees, and still got 2 evening carols and a party for them to get through before the weekend.

I had to apologise this morning to mine, as I was very shouty. because i am ill and should be in bed but Have to work as my boss is in hospital and we deal with vulnerable people.

I am behind with shopping, still haven't done xmas cards, house is a tip, feel like shite, worried about one of my children at school and we are skint!

So I am a leeeeetle bit tetchy.
But don't call me tetchy to my face....!

Yes. Have been in foul humour for nearly a week. Am coming out the other side now and have been extra loving towards dd. She picks up on my moods you see .

God, no. I am more excited than they are. They have to tell me to pack it in.

thanks for these posts! I'm going to try to give him some time tonight, that's what he wants, but it's hard with a 12 week old and a house that seems to destroy itself the moment it's tidied cleaned!
I just want to be a kind, caring, ever-patient, firm but fair, calm, unconditionally loving, entertaining, fun to be with, creative, warm mother. I mean, what the problem with that?!?!? Why can't I just pull that off!

Not unreasonably, I don't think! My children, on the other hand, are being very mean to me (and each other!). Think it is due to them getting higher. And higher. And higher...Sigh. Will be peeling them off the ceiling by next week (and peeling myself off the floor) The naughtiness and general chaos is worse than usual.

Jooly my ds (7) has started answering back in the most horrenddous way, he sounds likes a teenager, I'm seriously open-mouthed at times!
I keep thinking, if it's got this bad by 7, maybe it's too late to address it? Super Nanny would have me whipped.

Well, my worst culprit is my 3yo dd! She has started shouting at me and today she actually hit me, because she couldn't get her jacket on We had a serious conversation about her behaviour, to which she replied. "Yeah, ok mum- but why DID Rudolph have a red nose?" Sigh. Over the last couple of weeks she has called me a "silly moose" and called her dad a "crazy street-rat!" Her attitude is soo teenagey, and she is only 3. I tremble when I consider what she will be like at 16.