5 year old behaving like a monster in school and at home

[kazza6304]

I have a lovely 5 year old daughter, she's clever and very bright but recently she's been a nightmare both at school and at home and we are at our wits end.

Yesterday was the final straw, she gets bad behaviour reports every day from school, but yesterday was terrible, she apparently went into the playground at lunch and pulled down her trousers and knickers for all to see. She's rude to me and her dad and is particularly bad to my mum-in-law who lives with us, she's agressive, rude, throws trantrums in public and at home. We've tried everything, punishments, loss of privileges talking, chastising behaviour charts etc.,

I'm at a loss now to know what's wrong with her, is this normal and a "phase" she'll get over because I don't know ho much more we can take of her.

Any help gratefully accepted. ,

have you no one who can act as a middle person. sounds like you need a break. is she not being challenged enough at home and school. sounds like you need someone to tell she needs to say sorry and respect you and her teacher and you need ground rules set in stone and she needs to be told what happening as she may not be able to cope with changes in routine even though she bright i had this problem with couple of children as i trained for nneb and child psychology course

Has anything happened recently that might have started this off...moving house, pregnancy, new baby, parents arguing...there may be an obvious trigger if you think back.

Sounds like quite unusual behaviour but I might be wrong.

Also I hate to suggest this but is it at all, remotely possible there may be some form of abuse going on

sometimes children can get very aggressive as a way of dealing with something like that,

it wouldn't necessarily be someone you know.