DD has been to Summer School, swimming and Play Rangers during the holidays. And we bought her her first "real" bicycle after having been given the go-ahead from her doctors. Shortly afterwards we bought bikes for ourselves and a rickshaw 
for DS so that we could accompany her and have real family outings.
I wanted a quiet day today so we set off for the library early so that DD could complete the summer library challenge thing.
When I had new books as a child I'd disappear upstairs with them but she insisted on hanging around while I explained that I had important copying and paperwork to do and would be finished in ten minutes.
I almost managed to complete my own task with DD wibbling on and on then screwed up addressing my last A4 envelope because I couldn't tune her out.
It was my application to the Family Fund for disabled children which I had spent hours on and which had been sent back for a very silly reason but needed immediate attention.
She has upstairs a bedroom all of her own. DH and I don't. We have DS (autistic, sleepless, aged 3) in ours. Books, pens and paper she has a-plenty. She has a TV and hundreds of DVDs, a wii, and an iPod.
This is what pissed me off:
My Dad rang to ask how the children are. Meaning DD of course as he has no time for DS 
I explained that she is spending time in her room and he more or less accused me of favouring my son because he has a T.V channel (CBeebies) and she doesn't have the Disney one upstairs in her room.
So the answer to DD's "it's all about meeee" attitude is to pay for programmes which are about precocious American mean / cool pre-teens is it?
We have also spent all summer getting DD to lose weight without making a big deal about it. She is doing spectacularly well. AIBU to think that a Disney Channel subscription is not the way to go?