How can you "think" you might be doing permit damage to your children? Let me be the first to tell you, the abuse you are doing to your children, will hunt them the rest of their lives. Not only are you hurting your older children, you are also hurting those little twins. Something in your life hurt you so badly you are taking it out on your children, please for the sake of your children, figure it out and learn to cope with it. Those children are innocent, and didnt do whatever it is that hurt you so badly, that you feel its ok to terrorize your children.
In no way am I defending this woman, but this anger comes from something else, and she needs to figure out what it is. I am the oldest of a mother just like this one, at age 18 my mother had twins, during this pregancy, she was raped. Many years later and a lot of abuse later, she remembered this rape and got help for it. After medication and a lot of therapy my mother handles her anger in much different ways, she would never allow us to hit her grand children. While watching the video of these children, it was like being 8 years old again.
I 100% understand how these children feel, the best thing Dr Phil could of said to these children, is that mom is sick, and it is not their fault. Now that my mother has gotten the help she needed, you would have no clue in my family, that we grew up in a war zone. The love my mother now has for all her children is the same as any woman, that has never terrorized her children.
Everyone keeps saying call child protective services, that is not what these children need. They need a healthy mother who is getting constant professional help. Child protective services, can be a worse place for a child to grow up in then the home of a mentally ill mother. Of course if this mother refuses the mental help she needs, then clearly the last resort is CPS.
This mother is sick, if she was a bad person she would of never called Dr phil's show. She wouldnt of exposed herself to the national public in such a way if she enjoyed what it is she is doing. She is not evil, she is sick.