What to do when one parent has a short fuse with young children?

...or what to do when one parent seems to expect far too much maturity out of a 5 and 3 year old?Example. Parent wants to play video games in the middle of the afternoon and goes to bedroom to do so. Kids follow to be near parent and wind up bouncing around on the bed because they're young kids - that's what they do. Parent sternly tells them to stop once without any explanation. Blows up and shouts angrily a minute later when the request is not immediately and perfectly heeded.Example 2. Repeatedly tells young kids to "stop" (whatever annoying kid thing they're doing - jumping off the couch, running in the house, climbing on parent) with no specific instructions involved. Shouts loudly and aggressively when the kids ignore the several "stop" requests.How do you gently ask a parent (spouse) to rein in their aggressive yelling/short fuse? Leading by example and reminding them to be nice doesn't appear to work, and ridicule follows because it's inevitable that, sometimes, the more level headed parent does lose their temper... Which gets used against them when they remind the angry parent to cool it. No one is perfect, but shouting shouldn't be your main parenting technique. We all have bad days, but when there's more bad days than level headed ones, there needs to be a change.How do you get a short tempered parent to stop expecting more out of young children than is reasonable? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2DHjPVX