It?s OK to have a total mom meltdown
When I was a kid, my three siblings and I knew when we needed to leave our mom alone. Someone would get into a tangle with her, seemingly over something small and banal, and walk around the house warning the others??Whoa, stay away from Mom.? We?d all lay low for a few hours, until the storm passed. At the time, I remember thinking, ?What is up with her"?
And then I had kids. And now I think, ?How did she not lose her shit every single day"?
It?s not like I have wild, uncontrollable children. People tell me my two daughters?Sophie, 7, and Juliette, 4?are a delight; that they listen well and do as they?re told, even if they aren?t always like this at home.
(By the way, someone once told me that how your kids behave for other adults is the best barometer of your parenting, and let me tell you, sometimes I cling to that.) But there are moments when I. Just. Can?t.
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