Hi, I’ve looked through other threads and can’t see a similar issue to what we are having with DS
she has never been a child that like the word no but over the last 6 weeks we have had some really challenging behaviour.
this generally happens in the evening - when we tell her it’s time for bed or that she must come in from the garden.
she doesn’t go into a rage as such - she appears much more in control. She has hit, kicked, bitten us. She will tell us she if going to do it as though provoking us - sometimes she will go through with it and others she doesn’t. Last night this went further with her telling us she hated us and didn’t want to live with us.
we have tried different approaches to calm her down. And this is the bit I really struggle with - she will calm down, be her lovely normal self but as soon as you ask her to do the thing she didn’t want to it all kicks off again. It’s very Jekyll and Hyde.
we spoke to the school and they suggested a reward chart - we did this over the Easter holidays and it worked really well. But one week back at school and we have had 3 outbursts. I have tried consequences but when she is in outburst mode she doesn’t care about them - she just says no.
i feel like I’m walking on eggshells constantly. She is very bright for her age and although we have had bad behaviour in the past I always thought it was relative to her age.
some of the things she says are very hurtful and I don’t know where she gets this from - certainly not from me or DH.
has anyone else experienced similar issues?