God I'm such a mean mummy

[emkana]

Today dd2 woke up happy and it only hit me then that she was so horrid over the last few days because she was still feeling more poorly than I realized.

I now feel so mean for being so impatient with her when she needed a lovely caring mother who would look after her.

Hey. Stop beating yourself up. We all do it - we're not psychic, for heavens' sake - and under your current pressure and circumstances frankly I think it's bloody amazing you manage parenting at all. I know I wouldn't.
xxxxxxx

Yesterday I DS1 told me he had a headache, then when he was getting ready for school he said it was gone and that he would have tummyache instead, I thought he was trying to pull a fast one to stay off school and took him in anyway.

After lunch i got a phone call from the school - he'd been sick!!

MI is right - don't beat yourself up about it.

Thank you for your encouraging words.

Still feel slightly mean, but have also decided not to be too hard on myself.

I really told my DS off one day when he had been badly behaved & whingy with a playdate. Apologised to my friend for him etc.

Next day he developed a Bells Palsy (age 4) & I was mortified that he must have been feeling so ill & I had shouted at him