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Hi, this is Janet Lansbury. Welcome to Unruffled. Today I'm responding to an email from an

overwhelmed mom with twin three-year-olds and a newborn. Her twins are acting out and screaming and she feels at the

end of her rope. She's looking for some help. Okay, here's the note I received. Hi, Janet, I'm writing

because I'm really at the end of the road here. To give a brief background, my husband is in the

army and gone a lot. Within the past two years, my three-year-old twins have dealt with me

getting pregnant and being in the hospital, so they had to live with my mom for a month,

then come home to their dad deployed and me sick. Then they got a new brother, and their dad came home. Once this happened,

my daughter twins started acting out more and more each day to the point where she's screaming

from the minute she wakes up to the minute she goes to bed. No matter how hard I try to calm her down,

she will just yell and scream at me. It's so extreme that I spend most of my day

crying because I don't know what to do. And then I end up yelling back. Meanwhile, her twin brother will

not listen. He's always telling me no and doing things he knows he's not supposed to be doing.

He looks me right in the face as he's doing them, which is infuriating. I don't know how to fix

this behavior and feel like I've ruined them somehow. I listen to your podcast, but it doesn't

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