Some one once told me that children can sense your moods and I completely underestimated what they said. Now that I have children I couldn’t agree more.

Our daughter is almost 2 years old and she rides my mood swing right along with me. If I’m having a bad day sometimes she ends up having a major attitude but, more often than not, she comforts me. She’s seen me cry (momma’s if you cry in front of your kids you’re not failing or alone!!) and tries so hard to comfort me. Even if it’s just by wiping my tears or grabbing my face and leaning her forehead to mine for a few seconds.

Our family has gone through some major events in the last 3 weeks, we lost a great man and then exactly a week later gained our little man (3 weeks early). That’s enough life changes to make anyone have some mood changes but I’ve seen first hand exactly how our daughter’s mood depends on mine. She can go from a carefree almost 2 year old to acting like an adult in an instant to try to make someone feel better (or she can go to a 16 year old sassy pants haha).

No matter what’s going on in your life, good or bad, your children will react to the changes too. Unfortunately, when our children decide to react by acting out we tend to get mad and yell at them because we’re already in a bad mood but we need to remember sometimes that’s the only way they know how to show their emotions. I do want to take a second to say that it doesn’t matter the age of the child. Our almost 2 year old will change based on our moods just the same way a 15 year old will change based on his/her parent’s moods.

Have you ever noticed your child(ren) changing their moods based on yours?