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Your Kids Know When They Are Out Of Control

January 25, 2019 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Sometimes I think when our kids’ behavior is worse than usual or really out of control, for many of us our first instinct is to yell, threaten and ultimately punish. You know, so we can make sure they understand just how horribly they are acting. We do our best to make them feel really, really […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: dealing with temper tantrums, meltdowns, temper tantrums, when your kids lose it

Newsflash: Your kids aren’t perfect. And neither are you.

January 27, 2017 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Rant forthcoming. Yesterday I wrote a post about dealing with tantrums. And I received this comment: “…I’ve never experienced a kid tantruming…” It’s only part of the comment. I don’t think it was written by someone who was simply trying to get a rise out of me. I think it was written by a judgmental […]

Filed Under: Funny Stuff, Lessons I've Learned, Parenting, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bullshit, depression, French, fuck you, imperfect, motherhood, parenting, potty mouth, temper tantrums

One Way To Effectively (And Less Painfully) Diffuse A Temper Tantrum

January 26, 2017 by not your average mom 8 Comments

If you have a two, three, four, or five-year-old, then there is a good chance you have the pleasure of experiencing at least one full-blown, level 10, code red temper tantrum every single day. Our youngest is now five-years-old. I’d say the temper tantrums at this age are less frequent. But what they lack in […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Life at My House, Parenting Tagged With: clean, clothes, endurance, kids' chores, outfits, positive discipline, punish, room, teaching responsibility to children, temper tantrums

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