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[quote=Anonymous]I have become a mom who yells. My daughter is 4. Somehow I’m finding this age very aggravating. I ask her not to do something (like “don’t step on that [food you just dropped on the floor]”) and she does the EXACT thing I just asked her not to do. So I yell. Or she has a meltdown and starts screaming, actually screaming, and I get concerned about the neighbors complaining, so I yell at her to JUST STOP. I know it doesn’t help and won’t make her stop. My behavior it’s rational. And I feel awful afterwards. But I’m not sure how to do better. When I feel myself getting to the point of yelling, I have tried telling her that I need to take a break, and she freaks out and has a meltdown. She doesn’t want me to remove myself. If I try to go into another room, she starts screaming and shrieking and will beat on the door for me to come out. I am a single mom, so there is no other parent who can intervene. Time outs also don’t work well with her. She also screams and shrieks, which is a problem in an apartment. And honestly it’s part of what’s triggering me. When she’s having a meltdown she will repeat the same phrase over and over (like “I don’t want you to leave”) — but she might say it 200 times and it drives me mad, until I snap and yell at her to JUST STOP BECAUSE I’M LOSING MY MIND. So, what do I do here?[/quote]

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