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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5113 Help Me Stop Yelling at My Kids! Freedomain Call In

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2023

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

I find myself getting into an uncontrollable rage with my kids because they do not listen to what I or my girlfriend say. Especially my 6 year old who has an attitude. I do not outright hit them but I will be aggressive, shove (rarely), shout, growl, and act in ways that are not appropriate for a father. However, for lack of a better way to put it, I just can't stop myself. I know I am still responsible for my actions, but in the moment it feels like I can't hold back. Please help!

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0:00.0

Right, Steph. And so it's basically just to kind of recap my message. I'm a father to three kids. And I have a big issue with controlling my anger.

0:15.0

I think I've improved over the years. I have went to something like anger management a couple years. I mean, it was anger management a couple years ago, but just like a course.

0:24.0

So I think I'm doing a lot better, but I still I get these times when you know, the kids aren't listening to me or they're doing something bad and it just piles on until you know, I, I guess I can't control myself.

0:41.0

I don't I don't hit the kids, but I am aggressive. I yell a lot and things of that nature basically just the kind of behavior that I do not want to.

0:54.0

I don't want to, you know, do those things. And I don't want to feel that way.

0:59.0

But it's I guess for lack of a better way to put it, I can't control it. I know I know that I'm responsible for my actions, obviously, and I do take responsibility, but it feels like I can control it, I guess.

1:12.0

Right, right, no, nobody spoken and good for you for hanging in there and sorting this out. That's a tough thing. Do you want to tell me a little bit about, I mean, origin story childhood and so on?

1:25.0

Sure, Stefan. Well, is this like one day I was born and then, or is there a particular spot where you want me to start in a my childhood or?

1:39.0

I would say, I mean, I this good remember, I mean, this stuff that's pretty memory probably we wouldn't be able to do much much, but yeah, so what was your childhood like a relationship with your parents school, how you were disciplined, that sort of stuff.

1:54.0

Okay, well, I guess I'll break each of those down. So so relationship with parents.

2:00.0

At the time, everything seemed good, I think in retro spect.

2:05.0

I wasn't as close with my dad as I would have liked to certainly now at this point in my life, I wish I was closer to him. He was he was in the military.

2:14.0

He wasn't always gone away, but sometimes it was of course, you know, for however long, but even when he was around, you know, say when I was when I was done school and we were both and he was done work and it was the evening time.

2:28.0

He would kind of just watch TV and then we wouldn't really we didn't frequently do a lot of things together or talk a lot and as per my mother, I think I was probably closer to her.

2:39.0

But you know, I can't recall like super happy memories of things that we would do every week, for example, like things like that.

2:50.0

Some people might have routines that they had or special days of the week with their parents doing certain things.

2:56.0

I never did anything like organized sports or anything or clubs. So it was kind of just, you know, I've always just kind of said it was like average.

3:05.0

I mean, nothing really remarkable either the way I grew up or my relationship with my parents really.

3:12.0

It wasn't it wasn't strenuous and it also wasn't I don't think like super closer anything.

3:21.0

Yeah, I don't think about it. I mean, often I mean, I think about my relationship with my dad, but in terms of my childhood, it's it feels so painfully average that.

3:31.0

I can't even really I can't pinpoint anything in particular. I mean, my dad had had a had a temper problem as well and I think to an extent still does.

3:41.0

But I guess I'll leave it at that for now. If that's maybe enough for you to kind of to pick out on this you think I should give you some more material.

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