The Mean Mommy Monster

Hi, my name is Vicky. 

Most days I feel like this version of JC

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But lately, with all the insane hormones pumping through my system and the days where I feel like I’m wearing my own weighted vest and as if at any minute I will turn into the Incredible Hulk because the estrogen or whatever is just coursing and pumping madly through my body I feel more like this.

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I may have actually yelled about hangers recently.  Plastic hangers tangled in clothes just shoved under dressers and beds and onto closet floors.  I may or may not have been wearing a face mask at that same time. 

The thing is lately I just feel like a terrible mother.  Like ‘Mean Mommy Monster’ because that is what I’m calling myself lately.  She comes out when all three kids start whining first thing in the morning and just keep going until dinner. When she comes out it is real hard to reign her back in.  I don’t want to be the screechy, time out yelling mom I am right now.  Each day I start them off on a good note but the whining, the kicking, all of it just makes me feel like driving off into the sunset solo. 

I just want to figure out what is going haywire in my body and move on.  I want better techniques to handle whining because right now I can’t remember any of them.

 

What do you do for whining? Especially at various ages? 

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