I thought books were supposed to be good for kids? I swear this is all the fault of 'I Love You, Little Monkey' ... anyway. DD is 3.4, and has recently taken to announcing, lower lip a-wobble, that 'you don't love me' if DH or I are at all sharp with her, or even if we tell her quite neutrally not to do something. It does pull me up short when I'm going a bit off the rails, and then I'll tell her of course I love her, but sometimes I don't like the way she behaves (yeah, just like the book). But when I'm suggesting quite calmly that she not do something? It's getting a bit wearing.
What do you think? Continue with the 'of course I do'? Or 'deal with it' in some way? She's only little, but it just seems horribly manipulative, and I don't want her to learn that it 'works' (although as I say, it IS a rather good wake-up call for me when I'm being unreasonable with her).
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"You don't love me ..." - how do I deal with this from my 3yo?
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DontCallMeBaby · 16/07/2007 21:41
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