7 year old daughter???!!!

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AIBU - anyone else struggling or is it just me?

I have a beautifully behaved, kind and considerate 12 yr old DS, my 7 yr old DD on the other hand is a fucking nightmare!

I am currently sat in the garden whilst she rages about being served a meal that two weeks ago she would have gleefully welcomed.

I'm a single Mum and have had her on my own for 6 days in a row now which is not the usual schedule but I'm pulling my hair out at how volatile she is.

One minute, I'm "Super Mum" & the next minute she is wrestling the toothbrush out of my hand.

Don't get me wrong, my DS went through a number of phases but this seems on a different spectrum and dealing with it all on my own is ridiculously overwhelming.

If this was full time for the rest of my life, I would run away screaming tonight.

YY to the hormone surge.

But I have one of those too - makes a 'terrible two' toddler look like a walk in the park.

My eldest was like it too - she is now 13 and we are in an ok stage (well today at least)

So glad I'm not the only one. 8 year old DD can be horrible some days.

My almost seven year old DD has turned into a monster this week, I can’t get to the bottom of it! She even played up at girls football earlier which was embarrassing beyond belief.

Is this new behaviour, or has she been like this since you became a single mum? Mine just turned eight but she's always been awful. She has attachment disorder.

Mine are adult and teen now, but ds1 was a dream to parent, ds2 was an angel when he wanted to be and the devils spawn when he didn’t- funnily enough around the age 7. On the plus side by the time he was 9 he stopped the behaviour. But I would have gladly fostered him out during that time, yet school, friends parents etc would go on about how much of a darling he was. I was are we talking about the right child? But I was happy that he behaved elsewhere, so I kept ‘trying’ (and it was trying) to remember that when the devils spawn took over.

8.5 year old dd1 seems to be getting better now but I sympathise OP.
I think Disneyland Paris about 6 weeks before she turned 8 was the low point (although she says she had a wonderful time!) when she just wouldn't get dressed each morning and just ranted and raved. My childless atm friend who came with us *also single parent) was shocked coz she'd never seen her like it.