I have to say it goes in stages for me. Some weeks everything works and I feel pretty on top of things, but I've had some shockers.

Sleep deprivation turns me into banshee woman. In a rage one time I stormed off to lock myself in the toilet, tripped on the potty do kicked the potty and it got wedged in the wall! Yep about a foot off the floor and through the plaster. I had to patch and sand it before Dh saw it lol!

Each moment is just a breath way from bliss or hell. I try and reminder that when I feel down, but also when things are cruisey, because it only takes a second for everything to unravel.

Parenting is damage control so much of the time, it can get you down.
I sooo could of written this post

I do like a good storm off when i have my cranky pants on

I think that one of the most important things to realise is this: that we are striving to be gentle parents and raise our children with gentleness (which in my thinking is to also raise them knowing that they are FULL humans, they enjoy the same rights as myself and any other human on this planet). I think actually that as gentle parenters our children see us more accurately for what we are: normal human beings that are trying our very best to raise them with integrity and confidence. One thing i love about the freedom that gentle parenting gives is the freedom to admit mistakes! this idea that the parent is never wrong and you *must* keep going despite realising you are in the wrong was the easiest thing to ditch for me. it has made me a MUCH better parent for it...not a perfect parent.

your kids will see you for all your colours. but the important thing is that those moments of not coping are fleeting and when things do get better they get really better: with a gentle parent who has open arms and an open heart and the ability to admit that they acted cray cray and are sorry for it ITMS.

I would like to point out that parents who do not gentle parent also crack it. but aftewards? when all the 'cracking it' is over...what then? it's the essence, it's what is at the heart of our parenting style that will stand the true test of time.