Angry little thing

Wow. It is really hard as a parent not to lose your cool with your kids. My oldest just blew up over something really little (a tatoo didn't work and by trying to make it work, he ruined it and I was upstairs putting the littlest down for a nap). So he comes upstairs in the baby's room, walks in (has never done that before when he knows it's "nap" time for the baby) and jumps up and down screaming, "you left me down there and now I ruined my tatoo!" continuing the jumping up and down tantrum in front of me and the baby. I was shocked but angry. He walked out of the room and I had to force myself to remain calm literally had to force myself. He's only a child, he's only a child, I can get the baby back down in a minute, he's only a child....the mantra running in my head.

I tell him it is unacceptable to behave that way and speak to me in that manner, that being that out of control about something so little must mean he's upset about something else and he may kindly go in his room for 30 minutes to think about it. And BTW no, you cannot play with any of your toys (yeah right what will I know if the door is closed). Oh that just sent him over the rainbow. The fact that I was so calm made him the maddest probably. So I get the baby back down and I go into his room and again calmly tell him that his behavior will not be tolerated and that he will be receiving a 21 Day Material NonCompliance (kidding Tammy) in the mail soon. I again tell him he has some time to think about how he could have handled that better. By then he's not crying but the baby is.

The life of a mom is insanely blissful in thousands of ways. This is not one of them

Jenn