My child is an oik...!

[missmoopy]

My dd (5 and a half) has turned into a teenager in recent weeks! I have to reinstate naughty step after two years of not needing it. She doesn't listen, she won't take no for an anser, she is stroppy, she is a smart arse...the list goes on.

Help!! Tell me I am not alone.

You're not alone! My DD (6 in July) is also like a teenager. Really hard work, answers back, smart arse, rude, challenging - you name it. But I understand from MN that this is entirely normal! So good luck...!

You are not alone, alas I have no advice, DS2 is just 5 and drives me nuts. He has just started rolling his eyes at me, on top of ignoring me, telling me no, etc, etc. The saving grace is that he is not like this all the time, a bit Jeckyll and Hyde.

its school and peer pressure i think... My dd became like this and we had some real battles!
She is 7 now and it comes and goes i cycles!
I know its very upsetting!
Just be really firm and consistent,shes testing your boundaries.
My dd could be particularly bad after school when she was hungry. She needs a snack before we even get home , that helps alot with the angry moods!!

oh,and does she watch disney channel?

No, no disney channel. She still is quite young in her tastes for film/telly.

good.avoid it if poss. my dd loves it but i'm convinced watching teenagers all day does not help!!!

i really think its a stage of development where they test you again, its goes and then returns at various intervals right up to adulthood!

I can handle intervals, as long as my lovely child returns to being lovely in between bouts of being a monster!

Around 6, both mine became teenagers. Eye rolling, answering back, a few "whatevers". DS1 only survived by the skin of his teeth the phase where he's say "blah, blah, blah" (with hand movements whenever I told him off.

I don't know where they got it because we only have a few freeview channels .... Agree that all that Hannah Montana teeny crap doesn't help, though.

I think it's a bit of boundary pushing, and a calm firm response, and a lot of ignoring is required.

I wasn't so alarmed when DS2 "turned", because I'd seen it in DS1 at that age, and DS1 is a lovely, mostly polite boy now.

Thankyou ladies, my Mum laughed when I told her...so guess I was the same at that age