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Help me enforce boundaries for dd2…

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Illstartexercisingtomorrow · 19/10/2024 00:23

She’s 8. Wilful, stubborn, always right…beautiful, clever, fun and loving.

My current issue is that her negative characteristics are often leading to a lot of pushback - will simply not listen when I tell her to do something, time out and taking away eg her tablet don’t seem to have any long term effect. She will say nasty things to her sister when she’s annoyed (not just the usual but what I consider over the line stuff). Will stomp, scream and throw whatever she’s holding if we insist on something and she is angry about it. This doesn’t happen every time. She does listen to us as well - just not as much as we would like. Is good as gold at school, and generally with/in front of other people.

I don’t really know how to discipline. I was disciplined by not being allowed a voice, or by being scared of my parent. So obviously I don’t want this to be the case for dd. But I actually don’t know what to do. And the behaviour at home is getting worse.

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username3678 · 19/10/2024 00:33

Try Family Lives they have a helpline and also offer free parenting courses.

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