The amazing explding dd!

[harrisey]

My dd1 is 6years7months. SHe has always been a 'high impact' child, nothing by half measures.

Over the last few months we have noticed a pattern exerging, where she will be a total angel for about 5 weeks, then spend a week simmering away, getting naughter and naughtier (mainly saying 'no' when asked to do something she would do with no bother at other times), with a couple of days of us saying 'she's gonna blow' and then BANG!

Happened tonight at teatime, served up Irish stew which she usually loves, she screamed the place down because she didnt want it, was sent to her room to calm down but kept coming downstairs and screaming at us which we just dont tolerate and she ended up being sent to bed at 6.30, but screamed and screamed in her bed! She did eat 2 plates of stew in the meantime, I wasnt sending her to bed hungry.

Then by 7.30 she is all apologetic and sorry for shouting and screaming ... and the cycle repeats, we will have another blow out in about 6 weeks time!

If she was 13 and it was monthly I would know what was going on ..... .... but it seems like she just needs to blow off now and again. There have been changes lately with moving house and school, but if anything she seems happier in her new school thatn she was before and they have no reports of any problems.

Anyone else have an amazing exploding dd?

We have this type of behaviour with dd1(4) and she almost seems to goad at us like a teenager ,it is worse in the evenings but usually when she realises it is bathtime/bedtime but the pattern seems the same as your dd.
To be honest we struggle with ways to punish her so this probably doesn't help.

It helps!! Because it means I am not the only one!

I am struggling with punishments/sanctions/controlling the freaking out cos all the usual ones just dont work. It is like she is a diffferent child for the 2 hours or so that it lasts, then goes back to normal!

My Dd2 is exactly like that. She seems to simmer and simmer away until she explodes in spectacular fashion every other week or so.

I have noticed that she tends to start up about 2 weeks before the end of each term. She gets tired very easily and everything seems to get too much for her.

harrisey. As you have seen my thread, I had the same sort of thing happen to me tonight with my DS1 (6years 8months)I dont know what set him off. It was the frist time he has done this. I have the strops all the time. But what he did tonight was new to me and him. Like your DD he came and said sorry after I had put them all to bed. It is good to know that I was not the only one tonight. Just the only one with a DS lol.

bumpig now for the early morning gang!