Help! Over the last few months my kind and funny eldest dd has become insanely stroppy, argumentative and shouty. She shows very little kindness at home, has toddler like tantrums all the time and seems to always be in a strop.
She cannot be wrong, has to have the last word and will lie about what she just said.
DH tries to pick battles but eve he (Mr super patience) is getting a little frustrated. He bears less of the brunt of it than me though. I struggle to pick battles and not let things go but I have tried being gentle and forgiving as well as trying hard line discipline (this is more natural to me I admit).
I know she wants to be older, more independent and 'grown up'. I try to let her do things reflective of this but its hard when she is also regularly behaving worse than my 2 year old!
I thought getting them to seven was like the holy grail in terms of temper tantrums and the lack of reasoning disappearing!!