DS's preschool teacher has figured out that after a weekend with his father, DS comes to school rude, entitled and sometimes just mean. He has a short temper, he doesn't want to play with the other kids, and he doesn't respect authority. Of course this behavior only lasts the first day back but every Monday I take him she asks me "Who was he with this weekend? Just want to know what I'm dealing with today!" It's funny and awful at the same time.

My dd(8) still has temper tantrums from hell and they are driving me insane. The doctors won't listen.

My husband is calm and even tempered. You might even consider him a fantastic listener. Thing is he is disinterested in about 98% of what 100% of people are saying which is why he appears calm and appears only to be listening because it's better than talking.

I'm from Michigan and would really love some spring weather. So over the snow and frigid temperatures.

I slapped my 8 year old daughter tonight as she pointed her finger at me and yelled. Last week she tried to kick me as I was trying to get her to going to her room. I've never touched my child. But with both our tempers combined, it's complete madness. My urge to smack her is getting worse when she fights with me. Obviously, I don't want the authorities to be called and, truthfully, I don't want to be my mom who was a full believer in spanking and more. I don't want to be my mom. I feel so guilty. My patience is gone and I just feel like running away from this.

Dear mom in the store: Calling your daughter's temper tantrum a "tempie" doesn't make it cute. Stop her from throwing and hitting the other kids or get her the hell out of the store.

I thought my short temper was due to sleep deprivation. But little one is now sleeping through the night and I still feel such rage when things don't go the way I want them to. I take time-outs, but I had endless patience before I had her. What happened?

My 4 year old was recently diagnosed with PDD-NOS; he's on the autism spectrum but high-functioning enough that it took this long. Before he was diagnosed, I was so frustrated that we couldn't get help, and I would take it out on him. His autistic behaviors made me scream at him, throw him (literally) in time-outs, and yes, hit him (strangely, this did not cure any temper tantrums!). These days I'm doing better, and we're on the path to getting help, and I'm very hopeful. But sometimes I still snap... like when he poops his pants for the third time in a day... I am a bad mother. & I love him.

I'm a server and it IS weird when a man orders for a woman, who do I ask temperature or dressing choice?

The only thing I had left from when my dd died of sids, is a baby quilt that dh's grandma made from dh's brother's old clothes who died when dh was a teen. His grandma passed away shortly after our dd did. Today dd4 had a temper tantrum after I told her that she couldn't have any candy. I told her to go to her room after she told me she hated me. She went to her room, and while dh and I were making dinner, she snuck into our room grabbed the quilt,went to her play room and painted acrylic paint all over it. Dh and I are both heartbroken, and can't stand to look at dd right now.