#1 - love your username - #2 - I completely can relate to the situation.

I have 2 boys - 13 and 16 - and a husband that all too often does not respect personal space or time of any of us - so you are really lucky that yours tend to respect that!

The attitudes of teens! I understand 100%, it was not the absence of the chips - but the surrounding crap, and the attitude.

Years of remaining calm and positive - when all life has stressors is hard to maintain after so long. It has only been the past few years that I have shown that I am human too, and get pissed off - when I am overwhelmed by too much, for too long. I can relate to the others in the home being shocked - and even felt guilty. Not about banging crap around only, but even crying.

Everyone has their limits, and everyone - as long as not hurting others - has rights to their own expressions and should not bottle it up. Its how the world goes round.

#3 Love your picture too - I got to go and find a green one for me to use!!!!!