Lose your temper - $100 fine

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I think Super Nanny needs to come by and slap my husband around a bit. Every weekend, ask the kids to clean, no cleaning. Ask the kids to clean, no cleaning. Lose temper at kids and terrorize them into cleaning. They're kids! They need reminders, and not just a comment in passing and expect them to do it, they need somebody to get straight in their face and say now it's time to get going on this! Instead, before I even know he's frustrated, boom, explosion. So when I ask him, "did you ask them nicely first?" "Well I asked them yesterday and they didn't do it." So I ask, "did you ask them nicely today?" Boom. Explosion, got my head bitten off. So he's downstairs barking orders at the kids and getting them upset, while I'm cleaning upstairs. I calm them down, send them downstairs to ask him what else they can help with and eventually the storm passes. He takes the kids out to lunch while I watch figure skating. So, when the skating's over, I went and got lunch and went shopping. $90 shoes plus some knee highs. Later he says to me, "you handled that just right." And I said, "glad you approve. Every time you lose your temper it's going to cost you $100." Then we had a nice long discussion about how we both could have done things better. sheesh....