Thank you for this, I am trying to find different ways to discipline my 2 young girls that have lots of energy to say the least. I have a very very very bad habit of taking my daily stress out on them & the reason I know this is because something they do at 9 am I would not react the same as if they did the same exact thing at 7 pm. They are still doing annoying things, however it's not their fault I had a day full of other stresses.
I appreciate your honesty.
This sounds like an opportunity to practice emotional mastery. They are children, so they don't have a lot of emotional intelligence because they simply lack guided experience. Your job is to show them how to manage their energy and emotion. And I think a lot of that involves recognition. If their emotions are validated "it's ok to feel angry or sad, so go ahead and tell me what's upsetting you", and their energy is redirected to something which is manageable -- say, like park activities -- then that might make a difference?