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[quote=Anonymous]It is mostly peaceful, calm or often than not, and I definitely enjoy them. I have yelled once in the past year.

I think that if I wasn’t very diligent in how I parent and addressing my own mental health (filling up my oxygen mask before I share it, as it were), I would yell, Things wound be chaos and tense all the time, and I probably wouldn’t like being around my kids.

I come from an extremely dysfunctional family and I have mental health issues and so parenting is the most important and most urgent part of my life (aside from my marriage which is equally important but less urgent). I’m so imperfect which makes it vital that I keep learning and practicing. Plus the kids mature and have different needs now. The goalpost keeps moving.

I read a lot of books and take parenting classes and do my best to put them into practice but I always like reading new ones too. I also make managing my own mental health a huge priority (therapy once a week, exercise every day, get sleep and food etc).

OP it’s hard but I do believe that you can find a way to create some mental space to focus on being a better parent (and that all starts from the inside). Life doesn’t have to be this way. [/quote]

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