DD1 (4.5) is contriving to make our life a misery. Some of the time she is lovely, but a lot of the time recently she's truly awful. She seems determined to be miserable, to have an argument. The most trivial thing sets her off - and it's nearly always mine or DH's fault. Today has been fairly typical - she woke at 7 and instantly burst into tears because her teddy had fallen out of bed. I would say that she finds a reason to burst into tears on waking about 50 per cent of the time at the moment. She had breakfast and then watched some tv, dh brought her some clothes downstairs so that she could get dressed whilst watching Dick and Dom. She proceeded to cry hysterically for about 20 minutes because he had brought the wrong type of socks. She went to demand (and I mean DEMAND) that he get some more - this involved going further than she would have needed to go to get them herself! Over the rest of the day we had about 3-4 more similar incidents, each time involving 15-20-odd minutes of total hysteria. Each time over something totally trivial. We delude ourselves that we do a reasonable job of balancing out rewards and threats, of being consistent, and of giving warnings, but we're clearly doing something wrong! It's very hard not to get bad tempered and I worry that we're just heading into a horrible cycle. We're actually beginning to wonder if there's something wrong with her. She seems hungry a lot of the time, and is better after food, but not convinced that can entirely explain it. What do we do? We are both of us really fed up.
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miserable, rude, demanding 4 year old (long-sorry)
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hatter · 06/11/2004 18:44
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