Sometimes I Feel Like A.....

Sometimes I feel like a bad mother. My daughter will be playing with something she's not supposed to and I'm in the middle of cooking or doing homework. I try to tell her not to do it but she keeps on, so I try to tell her again in a firm voice. Though, sometimes it sounds like I'm raising my voice at her. I really hate having to play the roles of both parents. I want to be the good one; not the one who makes her take her medicine, says she has to eat at least half of her food, has to discipline her, or says she can't have anymore sweets because she's already had too much. I know she gets mad at me for making her do things that she doesn't like, but I also know that she loves me unconditionally. I just wish I could feel better about having to be firm with her while teaching her what's right and wrong, how to listen to adults and do what they say, and how to eat right and clean up after herself. It's getting a little easier to do these things now that she is getting older and knows the basics of what she needs to. I hate having to discipline her, though. That will never get easier.