Feel terrible I yelled at my two year old

Take 5 minutes. Breath. Feel the feelings and work through the emotions. Gain your composure. Then go down and explain to him what happened. I’m sorry I shouted at you buddy, I was sad that my bracelet was broken after I asked you not to play with it but I shouldn’t have shouted, it wasn’t kind of me. Are you ok? Can we have a cuddle to say sorry?

Lots of cuddles and kisses and remember you are only human, you have human emotions and human reactions to overwhelm and stress. He still loves you, you’re his mummy and you can work together to rebuild and reconnect. The fact you feel so guilty proves you are not like your mum. There is a difference between one episode of overwhelm and ongoing emotional (and physical) abuse ❤️

Thank you so much for this. I’m literally sobbing thinking of how he looked at me terrified I never want him to feel that again especially not from me. Ugh I feel so low right now and im sure he does too. Going to do my best to make it all better.

The amazing thing about children is they have an incredible amount of resilience and understanding -often more then we give them credit for.
There are always two options when something like this happens, you can ignore it and pretend it never happened or own it and use it as a teaching moment for you both. He will learn that sometimes mummy struggles with the big emotions too but he will also see the importance of apologising and recognising the impact of his emotions on others (which seems like way to much for a 2 year old to understand but they learn from seeing and feeling and that’s what you are doing for him).

Please be kind to yourself and recognise all the amazing things you have done with him today, dressed him, fed him, cuddled him, played with him, helped him to learn and develop, reassured and encouraged him, helped him with his big emotions,so that 30 seconds when the emotion became too much is a small section of what has been 86440 seconds of giving him your all today