I need to sort my temper out

[ailbhe]

I need to get my temper under control. That, or somehow justify to myself and the law the beating of children to satisfy a parental urge for control.

I think I am probably getting hungry without being able to tell, actually, because there's a lump in my abdomen the size of a cantaloupe - well, a small one - and I feel full all the time.

I guess it's time to make up snacks and set alarms so that I eat them.

Comments

[serene]

*hughug*

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

My pmt seems top be getting less & less each year, which is of no help to you as I'm a lot older. I do still snap at Kate & Holly on the worst days though :( I don't snap at Andy, as he knows to stay out of my way ...

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Random suggestion based on no experience of actual children: could you choose a favourite toy of the child's to beat instead? Symbolically?

Also, yay hormones :X

[ailbhe]

Linnea doesn't HAVE favourite toys. She has no favourite lovie, no Special Thing, no blankie, nothing. Never has had, though when we're away she chooses one from a completely random assortment and confers HomeNess on it for a bit, and then it matters. Actually, she hasn't done that for two years either.

It also means I have nothing to confiscate as a revocation of privilege; she's the most alarmingly self-contained child I've ever mothered.

*tears hair out*

[clare-s.livejournal.com]

No help but immense sympathy. I have had no patience at all with the girls during this pregnancy and have been very grrr argghh and FFS children how hard can it be to pay attention.

[helenprev.livejournal.com]

Utter sympathy from here too - I'm absolutely hideous when I'm hungry and my children suffer the rough end of my tongue. :-(

[mrs-warwick.livejournal.com]

my fuse was incredibly short when pregnant, I would loose my temper over the slightest things. Sometimes I was aware that I was acting irrationally, a lot of the time it seemed a perfectly natural response.
Luckily for Rhiannon I was more aware of this the second time around. But it was very difficult.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

I need to get my repeat prescription for happy pills - snow has interfered with the scheduled point for ensuring I didn't run out. This is evident in me wanting to kill both customers and husband quite a lot. Knowing what is causing it doesn't help with the actual emotions though.

I'm conscious that I'm comfort eating as a result, which isn't helping, cos I was making decent strides in reducing my 'thoughtless' calorie intake significantly.

[ailbhe]

Comfort eating is better than comfort ruining-the-business-and/or-the-marriage though! It's temporary, you'll get back into it when you have your pills.

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I'm not kicking myself for it, cos that's counter-productive, more just making sure that I know that's what I'm doing. It's the mindless grazing that gets me into trouble with gaining weight.