Things are coming to a head with my son’s anger, but there’s a silver lining
On a parenting site recommended to me, a friendly, Stock Image dad wrote that crying and crankiness were, actually, a good thing, because tears contain cortisol, the stress hormone. Crying is, therefore, just stress leaving the body. Not for the first time, I had my usual reaction to reading a well-meant bit of happy-clappy parenting advice; namely, a strong desire to reach through my screen and release some of my own stress on Stock Image Dad’s big smug face.
I’ve written about my son’s anger before, but things are coming to a real head; in his case, a small, screaming, ginger head. His tantrums are so bad it’s hard to get him to leave the house, or return to the house, or induce him to perform any task on command at all.
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