I am a parent of two small children, three years old and six months, and am struggling to control my temper.
I have never hit or hurt my children and never would, but I feel sickened with myself for feeling rage towards my older child and shouting. I feel urges to hit my older child when I am angry but would never do so.
I don’t know if these urges are related to my experiences of being physically abused as a child and, if so, what I can do to control them. I have made my child cry a number of times by shouting, and I can’t bear the thought
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