It's funny this thread came up, cuz this was legit on my mind earlier today.
My son's 3rd bday party I think. 3 or 4..... Either way we had a lot of family, friends, and a lot of kids were there....
And one of my brother-in-law friends came and in his infinite judgement decides to him his engine while turning his car to park over in the side of the lawn.... Mad kids playing in the lawn
Fucking dirt flies up n everything... Kids jumping and running cuz the engine was so loud.... One of them fixed up cars that's extra loud for no reason.
I know I have a temper. I'm aware of this.
And I instantly flipped.... Like homie ain't even park and get out.... He just left...
And at the moment I never really reflected.... But today for some reason I was...
I had family there. Mom's, uncle's, aunt's, members from our church. Both sides of my wife's family was there. Friends we have together and individually... It was a nice crowd.
And even though homie was dead wrong....I can't help but to think my anger scared everybody... And no one really said anything to me about it....
It was more everybody was on alarm cuz I went off.... And they all kinda was like "u okay?" after it was over....
I just don't understand it.... I've seen people go off all the time and normally someone hops in their face it challenges that anger or something...
But not with me.. It's like people just get out the way.
And it made me think... Am I scary to my loved ones when I get angry??
Like I've never even hurt anyone forreal or turned that anger on anyone unwarranted.... But flashes of it will surface from time to time.... And I couldn't help to think what my son sees when I'm angry.
What he saw when I was angry and disciplining him.
Me and
@Black_Samson were talking about it on PSN years ago. 2014/2015 right around the time we were going to all them doctors and therapist n shit.. and he was like I can't teach my son not to act out with anger if I discipline him with anger.
Like that shit just hit me hard as fuck and I switched up my approach....
But it definitely made me think....
I mean I joke around with y'all with the short fuse n all..... But that's really me... And while I've never got into any real trouble myself due to my temper/anger issues....
I definitely see it in my kids.
I've always said I needed more patience.... Well I've definitely learned it dealing with these kids.
My son just got admitted into the gifted and talented program...... Like I don't want his behavior to derail his trajectory...
If it's anything schools like to do... It's show off intelligent black little kids... And he could be in a great position for a lot of opportunities. But as long as he's labeled a behavior problem.... It's gonna stand in his way....
So I'm working hard to get past this....
But again. I think we're doing better. His last report card was great. And my last few conversations with his teachers weren't great.... But a whole lot better than previous years