I am a mom of 5, ages 5 months to 10.5 years. A couple of months ago, I had lost my cool so badly when the children carried water into the TV room to pour into their wooden boat (which is a shape sorter, so has lots of holes), it was the last straw. I screamed so badly I made myself hoarse, and then curled up on the floor and just sobbed. I have had a hard time finding real mothers online (no one on any of my email lists ever talks about having less-than-perfect families) and I always wondered what I was doing wrong. Why was I such a failure at parenting? Thank you for showing me that I'm not the only one with kids like that. Or shall I say, the only one who cares about their kids because there are lots of parents here in my neighborhood who have rotten brats but they don't seem to care.

Judy