When You Don’t Like Your Kids

If you’ve got kids, I bet there have been times when you don’t like them very much.

Maybe you feel guilty about that but you know I’m an anti-guilt crusader so I’m here to tell you that I haven’t met a parent yet (and I’ve met a lot of parents) who likes their children 100% of the time.

This is because kids — like most people — sometimes get on our nerves and just as we don’t always like our partners, our colleagues, our best friends or anyone else we normally adore, we aren’t always going to like our kids.

That’s OK. Usually not liking your children is a sign that something needs to be shaken up; either your kids are in a stuck mode or you’re in a stuck mode.

It’s painful to be at odds with your children and since we’re