HELP! I am seriously wondering if I should have ever had children. I love my 2 dc so incredibly much, but my 4 yo never listens to me. It's getting so frustrating that everytime I ask for something, even as simple as "let me finish doing this" that I end up screaming at him, because he just won't listen. It'a a horrible pattern, I ask nicely at first, firmly second, third, fourth time and then I yell. He's even asking me "why do you have to yell at me?" and today I said, "it's because I feel like you don't listen to me unless I yell." I feel like our relationship is becoming conditioned to this pattern. What can I do? I don't want this for us. He's very bright and precocious, and I just don't know how to handle it.

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