Tantrums at nearly 34...Bad Mum confession

[marthamoo]

Looking at Angiel's thread it's obvious tantrumming children are pretty normal...

I've just chucked the Duplo DS1 and DS2 were bickering over, across the room. Reduced them both to floods of tears and now feel like ten kinds of s**t.

Bad day.....

Am 26 and seem to spend a lot of time with no voice after screaming.Worst tantrum is usually thrown by oldest son."I don't want to tidy my room" "But it's dangerous"these words invariably followed by being accused of being a cruel heartless mum.Have recently started to pre-empt him by telling him I'm a cruel heartless bitch so tough luck.Have gone so far as to remove all star wars toys,his favourites, from room.That was almost a week ago and they are still in my room.
Sympathies we all snap at sometime.

Motherinferior, sorry, but that made me laugh - I couldn't have stopped myself saying it I don't think! I have tantrums too. One recently involved me calmly and deliberately dropping a large wine glass from the top of the stairs just to let dp know exactly how cross I was. I somehow think he was getting the point even without the broken glass but there you go, I had an urge to drop it so I followed it. Ds was away so I can't even say it was a child driving me mad. Maybe it was pregnancy hormones?

WWW, I threw a glass of red wine over dh once. It was extremely satisfying but I did have to repaint the wall the following day.

Oooh, this is a comforting thread

I will confess my "sin" now LOL - after a particularly bad day with my 3, DH got in from work and continued to wind me up!

Well, I just flipped (blame my red hair!!) and I threw his dinner at him (bowl of pasta).

Unfortunately, the flying pasta hit DS1 over the head and he was covered. I was mortified - DH and kids were gobsmacked - although DD1 broke the ice and started laughing

Even to this day, DS1 still remembers "the day you threw pasta over me, mummy!". Hope he doesn't end up in therapy - "yes, I think my problems started when my mother, who was a feisty old redhead threw a bowl of tomato and tuna pasta over me ".

Slinky your message made me laugh out loud, what a great thread.

I once threw a carton of chocolate milk at dh (while we were sitting in his BMW, mind you - ouch - not proud of that one) and my best friend threw a pooey nappy at her husband once. I also kicked the cat in front of ds about a month ago and then realised how careful I have to be when he tried to copy me... oh dear, is this what marriage & motherhood reduces people to

Slinky, I've got red hair too.

Tee hee just found this one. I remember my stepfather sweeping the area around the (very large ie small swimming pool sized) fish pond when I was about 12 and he was having a row with my stepsister. She was unbearable when she got going and was about 15 at the time so at the height of it.

When he had had enough he just turned round and poked her into the fish pond with the broom! I laughed til I wet myself (she didn't).