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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom was a raging, screaming monster pretty much every day of my childhood, unless she was cripplingly depressed.  There was no rhyme or reason to it. One days she'd come home and scream at us about the floor that wasn't vacuumed.  The next day it would be rage because we had vacuumed but didn't put the vacuum away properly.   The next day it would because we tried to talk to her when she first walked in the door.  The next day she'd flip out because we didn't get up and start talking happily to her.

As a teen, I yelled right back at her.  I hated her.  My whole childhood with her was fear and terror.  When she grew old and needed care, I did what I could to assuage my guilt, the minimum required to meet my own definition of decency.  But I was resentful.  She mellowed somewhat with age, but was still narcissistic and awful most of.the time.

I have a 3 year old son and have not yet yelled at him except I occasionally yelled his name when I need him to hear Merton far away.  It may be my greatest accomplishment.[/quote]

Sounds like you were the kind of kid that would depress the hell out of a parent. Was your mom a single mom? Did she work outside the home? What did you ever do to help her? Were you a good student? No drugs or unwed pregnancies? Well, alrighty then. Just check back in with us in 10 years when you have multiple children and then you can weigh in--but for now just tighten your chinstrap--parenting is brutal and none of us are saints--there will be pain along the way. [/quote]

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