I have a 5 year old son, the leader of this operation, and a 4 year old daughter. They're very mean kids. They are especially mean to me. I love and adore my kids, but the good times are over run by the bad. I can't take them no where, because what's intended to be fun ends up being pure hell. I have no control over them. No matter how much I talk, spank, scream, yell, time out....all that jazz, I don't get no respect. My 5 year old throughs huge tantrums, screams and wails...very loudly. He's very mean to other kids and constantly fights and yells with everyone. He's constantly hitting his sister and cousin. Sometimes I think negatively about my own child, which makes me feel even more like a failure. I'm not sure if this behavior is normal, at first I did... but my boyfriend seems to be pointing out that how my children treat me is not good. Does this sound normal, do my children sound angry and corrupt from me leaving their father?