My dd is really hard to deal with at the moment. She's just turned 4. I'm finding her exhausting quite a lot of the time.
She is, for want of a better word, a madam. She snaps and shouts, she pouts and frowns, she goes up the hiuff tree at least twice a day. She has a diploma in sulking. She talks to me a a stroppy way quite a lot of the time (I always pull her up on it - ie tell her I will listen when she can speak nicely) and her default setting seems to be confrontation.
When I do tell her off she often laughs or embarks on long convoluted explainations as to why she is in fact not in the wrong. She never wants to apologise and a shouted 'sorry' before she stomps off is as good as it gets.
She seems way too old for her years. She has an older brother and picks up ways of speaking from him and his friends - for example saying 'Oh. My. God'. She can be quite dismissive and will reject things by saying they are 'stupid'. She sometimes has an air of weary cynicism that makes me think of a child over twice her age.
She is pretty bright - she's already reading some words and doing some writing. I am not trying to push her but she enjoys it.
Have I just got a September born girl who could do with being at school? Or is this what girls are like (my ds was nothing like this at this age).
Sorry this is so long - not sure what I want this post to achieve really. Am just feeling worn out by her today (and today is a day when we have a lot of time on our own together so in theory it should be a Good Day)