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One of the worst things a person can do is bottle up their emotions, anger, and frustrations until it all becomes too much and they explode over everything all at once. Those blowouts of my parents' that I mentioned earlier? Yup, results of bottling everything up and then not being able to handle the rush of feelings. I can say firsthand that it's not the best idea to subject your kids to that type of behavior.
You want to be able to let out the things that bother or upset you in real time, even if your kids are around. It provides models for them to verbalize their anger rather than squash their feelings because they think that they can't address them.