Quickie: How to not lose your sh*t at the kids

Dirty Mother Pukka with Anna Whitehouse

Heart

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week's episode is the not-so-quick-quickie. Have you got to that stage of the summer holidays when you're losing your shit at your kids? If yes, then this episode is for you. Anna's joined by clinical psychologist Dr Martha to talk us through how to deal with the pressure of the school holidays, be a better parent and look after ourselves. Original music by Matt J Brown at WeAreOK.com

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0:32.3	Welcome to this week's Dirty Motherpaca, a bit on the side.
0:36.7	So this week's Quicky comes from a really
0:40.0	primal, maternal, visceral place for me. It's parents losing their shit as we are in the depths
0:48.6	of the summer holidays. So apparently two thirds of us in a survey of 2,000 parents just dreading the summer holidays.
0:56.8	They feel they're too long.
0:58.4	I think we're also, you know, let's face it, at a point of pandemic, PTSD, the world feels very heavy.
1:06.3	And someone who can relieve that parental guilt I think I've been carrying since I last completely,
1:13.6	categorically lost it with my children, is Dr. Marta De Ross Coyado. She is a clinical psychologist
1:21.3	specialising in children and families. Welcome to Dirty Motherpuckers, Quicky. Hi! Hi! How are you doing? I'm okay, thank you.
1:30.2	How many kids do you have? I've got one, one very feisty toddler. Okay. So I got in touch with
1:38.2	you, I think it was a couple of days ago, and it came after, I'm going to be really open here,
1:44.0	and I feel a little bit
1:45.0	uncomfortable, I suppose, talking about it in a way because it doesn't put me in a very good
1:49.9	light, but I lost it with my children in a way that I'm still not able to properly process.
1:58.7	It wasn't just shouting. You know, it wasn't just stop fighting.
2:02.0	I've got siblings, two girls, four years apart.
2:05.5	I lost it to a point where a neighbour came around and said, are you okay?
2:08.5	And I think it shook me to the core how deeply I lost it.
2:13.3	It was quite guttural.
2:14.9	And the children were just scared.
2:17.9	They were scared of me for the first time, I think, in my parental journey of nine years, they were scared of me.
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