It seems like there is always a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond on at our house, just for background noise that doesn't contain burping, farting, or chipmunk voices (if for no other reason, at all.) Have you seen the episode where Michael doesn't want to go to school because he slipped in class and called the teacher,"Mommy" and is being teased relentlessly because of it? He is telling his dad what happened and says "I called the teacher Mommy" and Ray says "Why, was the teacher yelling?" He relays the story to his wife and his daughter asks the very same question.This is me. everyday. all day long. at least this is how it seems. This new baby probably won't even recognize my voice unless I'm screaming on volume 180, and I HATE this. This is one of those phases where I am the mean mommy and when daddy walks through the door at the end of the day it resembles the second coming. This almost 5 year old comes home from preschool all kinds of jacked up and takes FOR-ever to return to reality. His behavior closely imitates that of a wild monkey most of the time and being 29 weeks pregnant, most of his humor is lost on me. Here is a fun place to be, let me tell you, and I feel like its all my fault. How do you keep from yelling all the time?
I can totally relate to this post! I feel the same way...I was so excited to see what other people do to keep from yelling. Sometimes I try to talk as soft as I can, that doesn't work. When I start to cry...they pay attention.
ReplyDeleteI'm a yeller too...but it was getting out of hand. My 5 and 2 year old drive me cray-cray but I've tried to take a page out of the Super Nanny's book and seriously tone down the yelling. (They weren't even hearing me most of the time anyway, no matter how loud it got)...
ReplyDeleteSo now I use the low, firm commanding voice. It works most of the time. That and threats of beatings.... :)