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dd particular ways

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longwaytogo · 25/04/2006 19:25

DD 3 has turned into a control freak. When she goes to bed she has to have a pile of books on her bed in a particular place, if there are not enough she says 'more in cupboard', she has to have piles of toys in bed with her.

then yesterday she went mad because the weetabix in her bowl was somehow wrong. I know she could be a lot lot worse ie not wearing clothes with buttons etc but where on earth has this come from? She has never had tantrums and boy oh boy is she throwing them now if things aren't just so. Btw she is 3.4 yr

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nicneedhelp · 25/04/2006 20:34

My DD in just approaching 3 and believe me i understand what you mean. Everything has to be just so or we have major tantrums. It drives me around the bend sometimes. But i wonder if its just part of becoming indepent and wanting things the way they think it should be. God hep my dd's partner to be is all i can say.

Lilliput · 25/04/2006 20:39

My dd can be like this a lot, sometimes to the point of scripting conversations I am to have with her. Sometimes I go along with it and sometimes I don't just to throw a spanner in the works

stoppinattwo · 25/04/2006 21:03

My DD started this, somtimes going around the supermarket I would pick somthing up and then maybe further along decide i didnt need it and sneak it back onto the nearest shelf DD would throw a fit, "it doesnt go there mummy!!!" and we would have to go back to the proper place.......... Think she'll be a librarian or a shelf stacker

No im sure its just a control independance thing. They are just exercising their right to have a say in how things affect them. Its then your decision which things you go along with and which you cant be bothered with. The weetabix - maybe let her get her own out of the box and put them in the bowl how she likes them, one less job for you to do!!!

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longwaytogo · 25/04/2006 21:09

she is sooo funny though, she has only just begun to put sentences together and the last few weeks she hasn't stopped. It's so lovely to hear her especially after speech therapist refered her to specialist playgroups, paed as she wouldn't interact with her at all.

She loves to go to playgroup and has never cried but she never speaks to them except to say "uma" (here in welsh) at register time. We have decided that she is just shy around other people and won't interact with them.

As for the weetabix the milk had absorbed into it and it was in a lumb one side of the bowl.lol

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