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Okay, today was a bad day for Mama. My ds who is 2 kept pushing my dd (who is 7 months) over while she was sitting up, causing her to slam her head against our wood floors. I thought I was handling it well, pointing out that we don't push people in our house because it hurts...but by 6:30 this evening I lost it. I yelled at my ds and put him in a timeout. He sat in the corner bawling and started saying, "Mommy hug! Mommy hug!" I felt horrible. I knew that I messed up so I went and got him out of timeout and hugged him. Then I apologized to him and told him it wasn't okay for me to put him in a timeout.
My question: Did I mess up? I feel like it was okay to apologize because we don't do timeouts in our house and I want him to know that timeouts aren't okay, but at the same time I feel like I just put it in his head that I can't make up my mind about parenting and I question my decisions.
Any comments?
Thanks,
Shannon
My question: Did I mess up? I feel like it was okay to apologize because we don't do timeouts in our house and I want him to know that timeouts aren't okay, but at the same time I feel like I just put it in his head that I can't make up my mind about parenting and I question my decisions.
Any comments?
Thanks,
Shannon