I'm that mom who openly got mad at her toddler at a department store b/c he bit his 8-month-old little brother while she was paying for something. I'm that mom... and I hate it. I hate that I had to get upset at him. I said, "you're going to be in big trouble when we get home." I said it in a very stern voice. I even snapped at the cashier b/c she was suppose to ring me up but then some other lady came and started asking her a question about something on her phone and she went to help her right in the middle of my transaction. I asked her to finish ringing me up b/c I was there first. I was a sales associate at one time in my life and I know that you need to prioritize your clients and make it known that you will be with them shortly. To make matters worse she forgot to give me the additional 20% off discount (had a coupon) when I handed that to her first. Anyway, I hope other people around me didn't think that I was going to smack my son when we got home. We don't hit in this household. We do time outs and take away things as punishment and he has to earn it back. I simply came home and took away all of his favorite things and then put him in time out. I know they say not to do it after the fact, but there was no way I was going to put him in time out at Macys.

I need a break away from the kids. Having two kids can be exponentially harder when the oldest misbehaves like this. Thankfully, we don't have days like this all the time but it does happen and when it does I am starting to lose my patience and react poorly. I know I need to have more patience but it's SO hard being a SAHM and hardly ever getting any breaks. And when I do have time on the weekends (husband's home) I'm out running errands b/c I don't want to do it having two kids with me during the week, especially Christmas shopping. I tried it one day and it was a disaster! All I kept hearing was, "mommy, I want this, mommy I want that." And more whining. He even walked out the store with two pairs of sample shoes on the shelf w/o the matching pairs. He said it was for his little brother. I didn't see it until we were a few stores away from that store. I immediately ran back to have him return it to the cashier and had a little talk with him about taking things w/o paying. I was in such horror. I have a kid that STEALS?! Omg...

If you were in my shoes, how would you have handled the biting situation? I know my way was definitely not the best way but it was the best that I could think of at the moment. It's so heart wrenching hearing his little brother scream at the top of his lungs with two HUGE bite marks on his little middle finger and tears squirting out of his eyes. They were squirting and falling at the same time. Almost like in a cartoon!