Can I please have some advice on how to deal with a very emotional and sensitive child. She cries all the time. No issues in terms of SEN. She’s lovely at school and has lots of friends but I feel she tries it with me and I’m really upset with her behaviour.
Yesterday for example was her birthday and I was going to take her to her favourite place for dinner. I picked her from school and on the way there she starts crying that she doesn’t want to go but wants to go on Thursday (no logic at all I have no idea why). I explained it’s her birthday today not Thursday and I’ll be in work late whereas I finished early today to take her. She just screamed and cried and said “it’s the worst day of my life”. She uses that line all the time. I’m really sad as I try to give her everything I never had. I grew up very poor and I try to give her these little treats all the time not just birthdays. Funny thing is she said on weekend she wants to go there on her birthday. So it’s not like I plucked the idea out of thin air I was doing what she said she wants on her birthday.
what is going on with her and how can I not take it personally when it very clearly is personal as she doesn’t behave like that with anyone else.
She really embarrasses me infront of people too. Just one example of many: we met up with 3 of her friends and mums to go park and on way walking to the car she pulled my hair and punched me. The other mum (other 2 had gone a different way) looked really shocked and I’m sure she is telling people how spoilt my DD is.