I love my little girl. She's 3, the middle of 3 children (adopted for context, but 100% my children).
She whines, cries, tantrums constantly. She can be sweet and funny. She can be affectionate but she whines more often than she's happy. She is defiant and controlling and nearly every time you ask her to do something it's a no or a battle and tantrum. She's completely out of my control and on her own agenda. Every day it's like she's never been asked to put on a shoe before.
She's always been a tantrum and whiney child and just isn't growing out of it. I am now on antidepressants from the exhaustion of the incessant whining. It's soul destroying.
Her brothers are more chilled, the older one probably autistic but aside from some meltdowns is largely a sweet child.
I feel so sad that I just find her so hard work. I find myself thinking that home life would be so much nicer and happier if she just stopped whining and being controlling and defiant.
She's my daughter and I love her, but I struggle every day with the battles and I'm worried about the impact it's having on my husband and I and her brothers.