Sometimes I completely lose it on my kids. Like, hulk-mom, rage-scream, “STOP-RIGHT-NOW-I’M-GONNA-LOSE-IT” type lose it. Puh-lease tell me you’ve done this too. And I know, it’s not for lack of trying NOT to lose it. Most of us have read all the “magic tips” to stay calm and they maybe work for half a morning, […]
Tell me you’ve been here… You read a post with a bunch of “stay calm” tips from a blogger who says she hasn’t yelled at her kids in four years and you are READY. All you have to do is… Take a deep breath Put a rubber band on your wrist Say a magical mantra […]
“MOM. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR CAKE.” So I turn from my computer, force a smile, and say “My cake is a chocolate cake with cool whip frosting and cookie crumbles on top. Tell me about your cake, A-Man.” It’s a script, it makes him happy, it’s worth it. But it drives me up a wall […]
“Is he struggling because of his autism or is this normal behavior struggles we should address?” “I’m just trying to find out… Is this an autism thing that we should accept, or is it a behavior?” “I just don’t know if she’s misbehaving or she’s just doing this because she’s Autistic” I hear questions like […]
Do you ever reach your boiling point and totally freak out on your kids? I do. I’m a mom of 6 neurodiverse children, I’m Autistic myself, and I have chronic migraines… Sometimes it’s all just too much and I freak out. I mean… there have been days where I have just completely lost it… Yelling […]
“Whyyyy do I always freak out like that?!” That’s me, by the way, complaining to my husband about how no matter what I did to try to stay calm I was constantly losing it on my kids. Maybe you can relate… Your kid starts with the “mom mom moooooom mom mommy mother mom mom mommmmy […]
