I YELL AT MY CHILD.

I don’t care who you are. If you are a parent, at some point you’ve yelled “at” your child.

Honestly I’m not sure how you can be a parent, and not yell at your child. Hear me out.

Last night, while I’m trying to eat dinner, does my daughter not jump up onto the dining table chair. Yup, the same chair she just fell head first off of a few weeks back.

She not only, in split seconds, jumps up onto the chair, but leverages her upper body on the dining table so she can full on high knee jump into the air. This catapults most of her body forward onto the dining table. Thank goodness it didn’t catapult her off the chair.

So, yup. I yelled. I yelled out of fear and shock.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING!” Most times my raised voice is from shock or fear at something she’s gotten into. Kids are insane, they get into a possible jam SO quick and they also like to push buttons.

I don’t have a raised voice for every scenario, and when I’m trying to teach a lesson or get a point across to her I never yell. No one responds to yelling. But, yes, sometimes in a hairy situation my first reaction is a raised voice, or maybe even sometimes a curse word.

I never feel good about it afterwards, but I’m human with human reactions regardless if I'm a parent or not. As long as I see it for what it is and try to do better the next time, I’m getting somewhere.

So, if you have a child under 2 and are appalled by the fact I “yell” at my child, come say hi when they turn 2.