DD is 8, going into year 4 next week.
She has some SN; Dyslexia and most likely DCD/Dyspraxia (she’s down as dyslexic with general co-ordination and memory difficulties currently). She struggles with most thing to do with reading and writing, she also has memory issues. She also has a speech disorder where she struggles to articulate exactly what she’s saying.
It’s just me her and our pets at home so there’s a lot of 1-1 time. She’s been at holiday club a few times over the summer (9 days) but mostly at home as I work TTO.
We’ve had a couple of local days out to get uniform and shoes etc. She’s had a new bag which we chose together, walks and drives to the local supermarket just the two of us. We had 1 big day out with a friend and her DD at the beginning of the holidays where we drove separately and met up at the zoo (so a couple of hours together in a car), we also have two days out planned next week before she goes back to school (Thursday). We’ve also done 2 Brownies Interest Badges together and borrowed my grandparents garden when they went into hospital for routine surgery (with their permission) and practiced her gymnastics and invited a few friends for a picnic.
Recently her mood has been horrendous, she keeps screaming at me that she wants 1-1 time with me, when I point out all the 1-1 time we’ve had she says it’s not the same. I ask her what she wants and she just says time, I want time with you.
She gets very frustrated when saying it and then ends up screaming it at me, which is not the way to with it. Some of it I think is hormones and trying to get out of housework/homework/tidying.
For context she does see her dad, EOWend for 1 night only and she does often get confused about where he goes. Although she told school in Year 2 that she never expects him anymore.
Thought I’d ask if anyone else has any ideas what she might be asking from me before I go in with the consequences?