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Rage cleaning: It’s a thing, right?

Rage cleaning: It's a thing, right?

I can’t be the only one who needs to get good and angry, like righteously pissed off, if I ever stand a chance of scrubbing under the sink.

It all started yesterday afternoon when I pulled into my laneway parking spot with Mary. Life was good right then. I had a trunk load of fresh groceries and a reasonable expectation of where my children would be attending school for the foreseeable future. Talk about not appreciating what you have until it’s gone.

I then proceeded to get out of my car and right into a squabble with a neighbour about laneway parking rights. I was no sooner in the door with a whiny three-year-old and a heap of groceries when the school called. Oh no, I thought, who’s cracked their head open this time?

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Hey Rebecca: Anger Management

Hey Rebecca,

What do you do when your child throws her plastic stool when angry? She’s got a little temper!!

Radioactive Mamma

Well, RM, I know my gut reaction would be to snatch that stool away and whip it across the room myself. But that wouldn’t be “modeling appropriate behaviour,” would it? Getting a grip on our emotions is something we all struggle with from time to time, but there are clearly some extra-sensitive stages. Toddlers. Teens. Post-partum moms with a screaming four-week-old and a tantrum-y toddler? Definitely.