Can anyone help or advise me about excessive shouting? I probably shout at dd 2 or 3 times a day and now she shouts back so I become louder and Lo doesn't even flinch while dh and ds1 wince and it's all one big shout really.
That strict thread made me sad as I think I am too strict with her. She is a button pusher and very attitudey and defiant and behaves badly quite a lot but she is 6 and wonderful and sensitive and desperate for my attention.
Its not really a quick one is it. I grew up with a lot of shouting and slaps and I worry it's coming out with her, all of the boys put together don't inspire such rage in me. She just glares or slams the door in my face and I am incensed.
The days when I'm most tired, if the babys been up all night or whatever, I feel close to smacking and I don't want to repeat the pattern. Shouting as a respnse has become so ingrained recently I don't know how stop it.
Writing this down has made me cry as it sounds so awful, being shouted at daily, and it doesn't work. I need to change somethng radically and I dont know how.