It's very easy to be critical or directive when you're not the one doing the majority of the parenting. It's good that he got a taste of the hard stuff! Actually I think you maybe were being too sensitive on the gloves, he might have just been annoyed at the kids for losing them as at you. Sometimes we have a reflex reaction that we've been criticised when it might not have been the case, I had something like that recently with dh where he made a critical remark about something in the house, I reacted and he said 'that wasn't about you, it was about me complaining about X'. But in any case your response was fine, you could have validated about how annoying it is when kids lose stuff (it drives me insane), but if you're feeling poorly then validating is a lot more effort... Recover quickly, GAL will still be there when you're better
