to think there's something wrong with my 6 year old?

[ohmychrist]

We've had days of her tantrums, screams, door slams and telling us she hates us.

She does nothing unless she can see a direct benefit to herself. For example I asked her to pass me a phone, and she just said "No".

The she's always been a terrible whiner and I'm ground down by it now.

No other children seem to be so full of venom. I dread the teenage years.

There's something psychologically wrong with her, isn't there? We're strict and send her to her room without hesitation. I'm sick of shouting and stress.

The consequences seem far too extreme. I hate the idea of sending children to their rooms, their bedrooms should be happy places, not somewhere they associate with being punished.

I think relaxing the level of punishments, and trying to be a bit nicer to her, ignoring the flouncing rather than constantly telling her off, might help.

I was a terrible drama queen as a child, would whinge and moan and flounce about all the time. My parents used to make a joke of it, which in the short term used to make me really cross, but eventually made me realise (even at the age of 6/7) that I was being silly, an there were better, more effective ways of both venting my frustrations and getting my point across!