Little People, Big Feelings by Gen Muir

Author:Gen Muir
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Published: 2024-01-14T23:15:08+00:00

He remained on the floor screaming with tears running down his face: ‘MY BANANA BROKEN!!!!!’

Then I tried to fix it: ‘I could chop it up?’ Then solve it: ‘Or pop in a bowl with a spoon?’ (I would have offered chocolate sauce at this point if I thought it would have helped.)

I tried distraction: ‘What about some TV?’

What was becoming increasingly clear was that my son was NOT going to be consoled – he was screaming so loudly I wondered when the neighbours would call the police, and in this moment, I was struggling, struggling to find my calm, my compassion, my anything! I felt so lost, so angry at my husband for not being home yet. I thought, ‘If Tommy is going to be like this, I can’t manage four kids’ and I could feel this huge, unmistakable desire to scream, ‘GO TO YOUR ROOM!’ rising very quickly within my body.

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