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I Decided to Stop Yelling for 100 Days & Here’s What Happened — Part 3: How Did We Get Here?

This is the third post in a series about why and how I gave up yelling at my kids — for good. Read Part 1: The Meltdown and Part 2: The Plan. Here’s what’s really wild about this whole yelling thing: I’m actually a really good mom. By all accounts, I’m a great mom. Even when I was yelling, my kids would… Read more »

I Decided to Stop Yelling for 100 Days & Here’s What Happened — Part 2: The Plan

This is the second post in a series about why and how I gave up yelling at my kids — for good. Read Part 1: The Meltdown.   I knew that if I was going to make good on my promise to my child — which I had clarified as “Never yell at you again because no one should ever talk… Read more »

I Decided to Stop Yelling for 100 Days & Here’s What Happened — Part 1: The Meltdown

On July 9, 2017, I lost. my. shit. on one of my 5-year-olds. It wasn’t just a momentary lapse. It was a solid hour of us screaming at each other. A grown adult, having an hour-long screaming match with a 5-year-old. And I was going to win. As I watched him lose the will to fight back, I had a… Read more »

Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down

www.amateurparenting.com — There’s this thing that happens when you spend all day every day saying yes to other people. You stop saying yes to yourself. At least, that’s what’s happened to me over the last several months. I said yes to work. I said yes to friends. I said yes to organizations and groups. I said yes to everyone and… Read more »