Perhaps she should admit it first before going on to counseling. She thinks it's the way to raise the children, I guess she's not even conscious she's doing everything's wrong.

She's got the bad ways to treat her children and show them how to show respect or things like that to her. She might lose their trust and affection like that. Children should feel love from their mother and not constant fear of being told off by her. Maybe as Stacey mentionned, she doesn't know how she should behave, since these are her first children...

This is her first pregnancy. Do you have other children? Does she act the same with the others? Poor little ones. But doesn't she realise that she is hurting them more by doing this? Perhaps that's the way she was raised? Often we reproduce the same behaviour that our parents had with us.

She's got a problem somewhere. Bev might be right when saying she could be jealous of your care and attention to your children, since she is giving every little feeling to you. These kind of people are rare, thanks God.. but theydo exist, unfortunately. So sad.

Has something happened in the past that made her like this? Did you try to talk her out of this situation? If you have tried and tried in vain I think that you should send her to a counselor and see what is going on. A mother has no right to not love her children. Without the love of a mother the child will be miserable

On her first pregnancy you say? Then you have got other children too. So how is she with the others? May I ask you if you have both decided to have children before having them? Do you know if she actually loves children? I can't understand how a mother can act like that with their own children. It's awful but it's true to say that it might be some past experience that made her have such behaviour and ways of thinking.

I would have her ass locked up for child abuse so quick her head would spin, NO ONE would ever treat my children in such a manner!

That breaks my heart that these people abuse their children and neglect them and there are descent people out here unable to have children, whom woould be good to these kids!

The guy's happy in some way. But it's sad for his children. Why didn't he try to talk to his wife since his wife wanna do anything for him? He could have asked this as a favour. I don't find any plausible reason why the mother doesn't feel the need to care for her children

sometimes it becomes difficult to cope with twins alone. Maybe she is facing problems taking care of two kids at the same time.I think that you should help her in taking care of them. help her in the house chores. She will feel relieved of some of her burden. Then you should tell her that if she goes on being so harsh with the kids then they will hate her and will never love her like a mother.