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[quote=Anonymous]My mom was a yeller too, and it always seemed out of control. She always seemed to take everything very personally. Like I was purposefully trying to mess with her. Until my teens (hehe), that was certainly not the case. I was just being a kid. I never wanted to let my kids make me feel that out of control.

What works for me now is just to distance myself mentally when something is not going as it should. 'Oh, DD is throwing her food? Ok, let me deal with that constructively. This isn't about me, it's about her. It really has very little impact on my life.'  Same thing if DS doesn't want to clean his room, or whatever. I just start to treat it like a math problem or something that needs to be solved. I'm very affectionate with my kids and emotional in a good way, but the way I've managed to stop yelling is to remove my emotion in those situations. I actually have a pretty bad temper, but I don't lose it with DD. What's the point? Like you said, it never helps. [/quote]

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