We have been sitting watching some sci-fi show streaming most of afternoon and evening, all of us. My son is rough with the dog and my daughter(23) does to to my son(16) what he did to the dog. He hits her and then hits her again. Now their holding each other and it looks like it will even get worse. So I jump in and start yelling at him because he's got 100 lbs on her and he's angry. He thinks I'm picking on him and dresses me down verbally. I tell him to go to his room and I take away XBox until they settle it between themselves. My wife storms off down stairs without saying a word.
Now I know this is all on me and I am pissed. I may not be the best fireman but I put out the fire. I go into my daughters room and dump on her that it was such a nice day and her mother was in the room with me the whole afternoon and thru dinner and then the fight happened and now her mothers mad at me. Daughters pissed and tells me not to dump this on her. She is right and I will apologize to her after this post. I go down and try to talk to my wife and she does not want to discuss it. I won't stop because I'm desperate to hear her say its okay she's not mad at me. She keeps telling me she does not want to talk about it. Eventually she yells at me to go away and leave her alone. I am so down and sad I go up and apologize to my son for what I did and here I am.
I wasn't so bad, it wasn't a perfect parent moment but I stopped it. I was afraid he was going to hurt her. I stop a fight and everyone is mad at me. I was doing their dishes in the sink, WTF. I am going to apologize to my daughter.
