Please don't take the title wrongly, I adore her, but my eldest daughter is just so difficult at the moment. Recent examples:
Putting youngest daughter's duvet cover on her bed as it was the only clean one available - tantrum including screaming and behaviour I just didn't know what to do with for an hour at bedtime (the sheets didn't FEEL right)
Buying new school cardigans - ongoing tantrum when told that old ones were in the wash; new cardigans just weren't right
Short socks no good - ongoing tantrum with hysterical behaviour until I produced long socks again - better but had to be pushed downl, so in effect, short socks
And the main one ... her hair has to be tied as tight as can be otherwiseit looks awful and she cannot function.....
She seems to be quite popular at school although has a specific clique of friends and doesn't seem to like others joining
She's quite confident to other people but hangs on my every word and won't go to bed after a kiss from daddy. It's ok if he supervises tooth brushing but I have to read the stories and put to bed and deal with ensuing "My foot hurts .. my finger hurts, my tummy hurts".
Get the feeling I'm doing something desperately wrong but just need to know what.
Grateful for any comments. thanks
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Talk to others about child development and behaviour stages here. You can find more information on our development calendar.
Behaviour/development
My five year old is just so hard to be with
7 replies
jonquil · 02/07/2009 21:48
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.