I need to know about moments when you have shouted at your children and the whole room has stopped and stared to make myself feel better!

[Octo]

Yesterday at softplay - very busy - 3 ds in tow

ds1 off playing
ds2 (will get back to him)
ds3 feeding

ds2 finds an unmanned icecream dispenser and starts pulling the lever so the ice cream comes out (think horrid henry) - quietly shout at him across room to stop several times, then at 4th time, put feeding ds3 down, stood up/walked towards him and YELLED at him to stop immediately. The whole room stopped

Shrunk into corner and gave ds2 a firm telling off. To which he said 'but its free ice-cream'

Shopping many, many years ago in Tesco, boys fighting as usual, about 8 months opg with ds3 and I shouted at them

Was employed by homeStart at the time, the Sec was in the next aisle, heard me and reported me!!

I got called in for a tlaking to (I didn't swear or say anything ansty- just the usual Of for Gods sake will you two please give it a rest!).

Gota sked lots of questions about whether I could cope with 3 kids FGS.

And they wondered why I never went abck after mat leave

Monkeybird if I do that with ds1 and ds3 who are really ASD, I get people telling me ASD is a figment of my imagination

Go figure.....

I was shopping in Sainsburys once, with a friend, when dd was only a toddler. Friends toddler didn't want to get in the trolley, so got her own way. DD tried that one and I said, 'no get in the trolley'. She screamed and screamed until I shouted very loudly, 'either you get in the trolley as I ask or I give you to the lady at customer services, who will put you in her cupboard until I've finishing shopping!' The place fell silent, whilst they watched dd stop yelling and get in the trolley. I then just gave eveyone a 'see, I'm in charge' look and carried on shopping!

Maureen, that is EXCELLENT

Peachy, I know it is awful of her and I was somewhat embarrassed with my middle class PC guilt thing, but her shamelessness was classic. I have AWFUL friends. Another one used exactly the same reason () to return a bright red rug to Habitat - this being the third one she'd returned to them - 6 months after buying it - because the colour was too stimulating... I'm not advocating it of course, I think they're shocking cows...

You know what, DD is 12 now and that is possibly my finest parenting moment ever!

You are not alone.

We had just moved into our new house and I was trying to get the DCs into the car. They were both playing up. I picked DD up and put her in the car, shouting, "Just do as you are told, for once in your life!".

Looked up to see my new neighbour locking her door.

I have also shouted back at DD when she kept screaming, "I want a juice!" at the top of her voice. The guy next to us started laughing when I shouted back, "And I want a Porsche, but noone is going to buy me one." Might have been a tad loud.

Today in the crisp aisle at ASDA (so could've gone unnoticed )

It didn't though

Me to DD1: "I don't know what's winding me up more, her (dd2) whingeing or you moaning at her to stop whingeing!"

My card was later declined, had to abandon fully-packed, loaded shopping in the store. My penence paid

I didn't make everyone stop still at this one, but it was equally as satisfying.

DD was running round the supermarket (too big for the trolley now ). My pet hate. I kept saying, 'this is a supermarket, not a playground', until she slipped over and hurt her knee. DD, much wailing, me 'and what valuable lesson have we learnt today then?' No sympathy what-so-ever! I love this parenting lark!

Great stories Feel so much better.

So I shouted at ds2 so loudly tonight as behaviour has yet to improve - he sobbed, shouted etc etc for a bit then came out of his room and said 'I love you mummy, will you sleep with me tonight?' bless - so said yes as long as he didn;t share any nits

My DD aged 2 hates getting into the buggy but causes chaos if allowed to run around in shops, etc. Shopping is always one big stress as a result. Every time I try to get her back in the buggy whether it be at the park or in a shopping centre she has a massive tantrum and arches her back. I ahve to literlly pin her middle down with one hand whilst quickly doing up the fastening. I ahve lost count of the number of times I ahve received looks for what must look like quite barbaric tretment. Cant wait to embarrass her as revege when she is a teenager!

I have shouted at mine so loudly my throat has hurt, usually after a day of hell and when I have been super patient Mum all day and then I just snap.

Was in Morrisons the other day and DS1 and DD were skipping singing their Xmas concert songs and a few old folk were muttering away about them so I made a point of saying "come on happy children, lets go" before we moved on to the next aisle = miserable feckers! Have jsut been to Spain and everyone their seems to delight in childrens behaviour and be sympathetic when they are being difficult and here it is the polar opposite

I took my dd shopping once and I opted to get the bus home. For some reason she kept licking the bus stop. She refused to stop even when I took her away from the stop and in the end, just as two policemen went past, I snapped at her 'if you don't stop licking that bus stop bookwormmum daughter, I'll smack you'.

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I wonder now if it had a nice taste to it since it was raining. Maybe she had an iron deficiency.

Another time I walked into Woolworths and clocked one of my male friends looking at an American Pie (the film) dvd, the one where the girl is wearing a skimpy bikini on the cover. I bellowed at him 'put that down now' and he jumped a mile . He thought it was a store dectective! His face was a picture when I walked up behind him. His gf was standing there cringing.

we are trying to sell our house and the agents tend to leave messages about viewings rather than actually speaking to me. one evening at 7.15pm i had degenerated into a screaming banshee, shouting GET UP THE STAIRS NOW YOU BLAH BLAH BLAH GGRRRRR ETC when yes you've guessed the door opened and the agent said ahh hellow did you get my message is it convenient for us to look round now?

guess what they didn't buy it.

DS3 has been an angel since I shouted at him and we are best friends now - closer than before - think some boundary setting is just what he needed!