Why am I losing my patience and snapping at my kids?
Stress and the constant buildup of daily messes make it hard to stay easygoing, leading to frequent snapping and feelings of guilt. This causes parents to lose their patience and feel like they are no longer the chill person they used to be.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1trying to actively calm down
- 2venting frustrations online
- 3taking a mental health day
- 4dropping fancy station rotations and going back to lecturing
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Sooo I was a very chill mom. I have no idea what happened, but now I feel like I am stressed now. Definitely trying to be chill again because my life was so much easier when I was chill😕”source ↗
“somehow I started to get angry about the mess, I have no patience to let them help me around the house anymore, and I definitely snap more than I ever did.”source ↗
“This became more of a rant comment but yeah, I am not as easy going as I would like to be anymore.”source ↗
Where this came up
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