Hi,
My just turned 8 year old DD has been asking for a dog for years but I've always said no as they really smell and I can not stand dogs at all.
She knows this but she still asks over and over again. The past few years she used to accept it when I said no but this year she just will not take no for an answer.
Recently (the past 2 weeks or so) whenever I tell her to do something she always says "I will only do it if I can have a dog." I told her that she can have anything but an animal and for her 8th birthday I gifted her one of those robotic toy dogs but she just said she didn't want a "silly little baby toy."
It is really winding me up now as she asks multiple times everyday and whenever I say no to her she starts to have a tantrum like a toddler (laying on the floor screaming and kicking her legs). Today she kept having tantrums over and over and after I sent her to her room she still wouldn't stop😓.
I feel as if this will only get worse if I keep saying no but I really can not live with an animal in the house. My husband and my other children (18 and 2) also dislike dogs.
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8 year old keeps asking for a dog
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HyeYoon · 25/05/2020 23:14
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