I wish I can protect my kids from all unhappy events

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I don't know how to be a great mom anymore. Yesterday I got home and it was horrible. My son was emotional and cried, my little girl was a mess herself. She has speech every week, and Tuesday was the day. She refused to cooperate. Then my husband just had enough of her silence and then crying because she refused to go home. It was horrible, he said some mean threats to her and that scared her so she stopped crying and followed him home instead. But my son who was 12 heard that and gave his father a piece of his mind. My son told his father he should not scare my daughter that way. I did not see anything wrong with that, but my husband who was more embarrassed and his eagle and pride took over overreacted. He was already fustrated with his little girl, now he was lectured in front of other adult by a 12 year old. I guess there are a only a few who can forget their pride and learn to accept their mistakes and be taught. It looks like my husband is not one of them. Needless to say, my husband said some things and also made my son cried. I hate what happened and I blame myself. Why was I not there for the speech, if I was none of this would have happened. But how can I afford to take time off from work, if I bring in the larger income for the family. I recently posted a discussion about my dissapointment and broken heart about my husband. each day I find this to be true and harder to forget when he does things like this. Not to mention he wants very little to do with the actual raising of the kids. But I feel he needs and work hard and understanding the kids feelings and emotions are fragile. He leaves all the homework duty, and caring for them for me to do when he also leave the responsibility of the bringing the larger income with me too. I do admit he works hard too, but he is also comfortable where he is at and has no desire to move up on the corpoarate ladder. He is not motivated to improve his earnings at all. Enough fussing, thank you for reading my post. I feel better and can start my morning now without feeling awful. I wish I could do something to make my son feel better. He is going through some emotional time. I fear he may be falling into depression. Too bad, my husband does not understand that even a child can have stress related to school, peer pressure and friends etc.