I've been doing my best to raise my boys and they seem healthy and happy. I'm grateful I stumbled on AP when my first was just a few weeks old. It's really guided me in the early stages. But I'm really struggling with being a parent to a preschooler. I feel I'm yelling way too much and just feeling angry a lot of the time. I know preschoolers test boundaries but I don't like the parent I am. I've read 123 magic, unconditional parenting and a couple others. I just find I don't have patience or energy to implement some of their ideas. DS1 doesn't seem to respond so I get frustrated and start yelling. Any suggestions on what I can do to improve things? Is parenting just very very hard and i need to suck it up and just stop yelling? I love my kids and can use all the advice I can get. Thx!
Re: Feeling like I'm not good enough
I found the most important way to get rid of the anger was to change my expectations. I need to EXPECT her to try to break the rules. I need to EXPECT her to melt down (in some fashion) when she doesn't get her way. I need to EXPECT h
Parenting is really hard!! At the same time I agree with pp that sometimes our emotional responses are about our expectations.
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back because I was raging at my 3 yr old pretty much every day. It was becoming a habi
Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old
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