Yesterday my 6 year old had a massive tantrum and was absolutely wailing and shouting because he had got cross as something he was making hadn’t worked. He was downstairs and I was genuinely worried he had hurt himself or something. I was putting my 5 month old baby to bed at the time and couldn’t move as I was drying her after her bath. I shouted out for him to come upstairs and he came up very cross and began wailing and shouting in the same room as me and baby. I told him to leave the room and he refused. I am ashamed to say I then told him off and shouted at him to get out the room. I just couldn’t cope with the noise level. Baby was crying as she hates getting out the bath, and he was wailing in my ear. I had to take his hand and take him into his own room where he then hit me and shouted in my face and again I’m ashamed to say I yelled back. Later when he (and I) had calmed down we had a good discussion about why we shouldn’t yell and how we could deal with things differently in future. I apologised to him for yelling back as a parent I don’t think there is any excuse to resort to that. However I’m now absolutely terrified that the shouting the baby heard might have damaged my babies hearing. Some was in same room as her so about a metre away and some in a neighbouring room. Am I being stupid to worry like this? My husband thinks so but I can’t shake the feeling. I’m also scared that she will have picked up on my stress. She went to sleep fine and is happy and gurgling away today but will hearing this and feeling that I was stressed have some lasting damage?