Ok, I was getting frustrated with my 3yr old and spoke angrily to him. My 4yr old says 'mum, yelling is not the way to show my brother what Is right.'

Hell, yes. All the time, actually. The one that really stood out, though, was something like what you experienced.

I yelled at our dog Lulu for chewing on something she shouldn’t or whatever. Wyatt very calmly said, “Papa, how do you think we feel when you yell at us?”

I said, “I don’t know. How do you feel?”

He said, “We feel scared. So, don’t you think Lulu might feel the same way? Why don’t you try just talking to her.”

It was a one-two punch because he was right, of course, and I knew it had more to do with me and him than with Lulu.