I often rant and rave at the children and occasionally at my wife but that is just me letting off steam and I believe they know this. Certainly they take little notice.
Today has been one continual battle between the THW and her mother. They have argued at top volume, non-stop, about everything under the sun.
Silence now reigns as I have just walked into the kitchen and said, very calmly and quietly, "Shut the fuck up or I will bang your heads together" and walked away again.
Perhaps I should do this more often.