I am a very empathetic person I love my kids and I am human also knowing that the world over all douse not care that my kids have issues or problems that frustrates me to know that my kids will live with me till my dieing day is upsetting when you hear all the "perfect" normal kids parent talk about their kids and the wonderful things they are doing when all I can do to talk about no melt downs , how they were able to follow a 2 step direction and the world looks at me like I am crazy and my joy and excitement is overflowing

so No you are not alone we all become impatient from time to time but (autism, bi-polar, and ADHD) upset me not my kids <3

I was taking a love and Logic class and the first night I had to walk away from the class because things were going so wrong with my ASD child. Love and Logic is an excellent program for children with or without special needs. If you get the opportunity to take it you will not regret it. With that said we are dealing with children with Autism, and it is easy to make a mistake, but we can just try to have more empathy for what our children are going through and get back up and improve the way we handle it next time. It takes time to learn a way of parenting that is different than the way most of us were raised. The program has helped me a lot. They have a web site you may want to check it out.

some night I honestly can't wait until they are quietly in bed and I can get my reward of reading. It is so nice to hear I am not alone either.

I definitely still lose my patience! The difference that I see in myself between now and 6 years ago is that I do not nearly as frequently make the mistake of allowing myself to completely meltdown because I have lost my patience.

I still lose it sometimes and start yelling or crying but, more typically, I just sort of turn off my emotions and switch into am auto pilot of sorts. I do whatever it is that needs to be done at that moment (clean up a mess, separate an argument) and then I walk away and take however long a break I need to regain my composure. Sometimes that break can last for hours. So what if the laundry doesn't get done and we end up eating frozen pizza for dinner. I think it's much more important that I do not regress into a screaming banshee instead if a Mom!

there are days thati think yup i got the patience and i am the best parent in the world and nothing my son does can get me yelling at him ... then ..... a hour later i think WOW holy crap i blew that thought out of the water into the stratapheres! i think it all goes into astrides. somedays are better then other and somedays we haveit together and we can be calm and then there are days that we loose it. DONT BE HARD ON YOURSELF we all have our days. i think we who have "special "kids have it worse somedays but being a mom with a child who is typical they can drive you just as crazy some days ...