A few of my thoughts...

I believe that at some point in every mother's life she will lose her cool. Children have this ability to push your buttons to the ultimate limit. Before I had a child, I would see a mother scolding her child in the store and think, man can't she wait until they get home. Before I had a child, I would see and hear a screaming child in the store and the mother would continue shopping completely oblivious to the child's screaming tantrum and I would think, really, you can't hear that? Why aren't you doing something? And before I had a child I would see a mother out and about looking a little haggered like she just threw whatever on and I would think, honestly...honestly...she has to own at least one mirror. NOW THAT I HAVE A CHILD, I think a little different. No the mother can't wait until she gets home to scold her child because by the time she gets home there will be four other things he has done and a mother really knows you have to catch them in the act or they have no idea what your talking about, and even when you catch them in the act...they still have no idea what you are talking about. (No I am not talking about husbands right now.) No the mother can't hear her screaming child because she has learned over time that if she semi-sanely wants to make it through the day she has to tune out the non-emergency screams. And finally, if a mother can at least shower once a day she is doing pretty good.