First of all

Sometimes!

I know sometimes that I end up in tears as DS is in tears and I feel at a loss and ready to yell or lose my patience or just give up (I haven't....yet!! :P) but I think that comes with the territory of being a parent. I see people out shopping with their kids constantly yelling and threatening or bribing their kids. I can see how frazzled they are, but I can see they are in a never ending cycle and their kids are in it with them.

But I then look at the big picture and realise that my gentle parenting is paying big dividends in the love and pride I have for my family. And I realise that although we have phases of the cycle, we always come out of it at the other end.