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How can I stop my daughter from being so selfish, egocentric and competitive?

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mummyloveslucy · 05/04/2011 20:16

Hi, my daughter has been HE since Christmas. She's just turned 6 and has some learning difficulties.
The problem we're having at the moment is her competitivnes and her ego. she always wants to be first, she'll cry if she dosn't win, even finnishing her food or walking from the car to the house. Whenever my DH gives me a cuddle, she tries to break us up saying "no, cuddle me!" If he even referes to us as mummy and Lucy, she'll say "no! Lucy and mummy, say my name first!"

It's always annoyed me, but my DH just laughs about it and jokes about how stubborn she is. Hmm When she was at school, it wasn't so bad and I could ignore it better. Now she's with us all the time, it's getting very annoying! It would be lovely just to be able to cuddle my DH or for him to say something nice to me without her having the screaming ab-dabs.

She is also quite demanding of attention when we're talking and not including her. She'll but in all the time, then rabbit on and on about anything she can think of just to get our attention back on to her.

I do love spending time with her, but it can be very draining when she's like this. I'm not quite sure how to handle it. At school she had quite low self esteem and had a pretty rough time. She was very aware that she was at the bottom of the class accademically. We've tried to build her confidence, but this has gone from one extreem to another.

The best one was recently when my DH said "Thank God that didn't happen", she blurted out "don't thank God, thank Lucy!" Shock

I'd be greatful for any advice. Smile

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mummyloveslucy · 05/04/2011 20:27

I realise from reading this through, I haven't painted a very good picture of my DD. She is a lovely little charactor and only behaves like this with adults. With oher children, she'll go with the flow and is extreamly caring especially with younger ones. She makes friends very easily and is very loving.
This must sound like I'm back tracking, but I wanted you all to get the full picture and not think that she's just a complete nightmare. Grin

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mumof4darlings · 05/04/2011 21:32

beginning of your post sounds just like my son who will be 6 in july. likely aspergers.

like you, i also cant cuddle my dh without him splitting us up, so he can cuddle me. We just both put our arms around him now and include him and if he gets cross we just pretend we dont notice, stop cuddling and get on with something else!

he also likes to get to the door first when we get home, everything is a race, but we just make a game of it!

I wouldnt get too stressed out by it. enjoy the cuddles she wants now as they dont want them when they are older!

As for being competitive, dont know the answer to that! We just play along with it!I dont think being competitive is a bad thing, its amazing how you can use being competitive to your advantage, with learning games "i bet you cant finish that faster than me........."

TooJung · 05/04/2011 23:25

I'm chuckling at her higher than God status!

logi · 07/04/2011 09:17

This also sounds like my little boy who is 7 and ASD.......all hell breaks loose if someone walks downstairs before him,it can be tiring but we just accept second place lol.

mumof4darlings · 07/04/2011 14:25

@logi SNAP, we have that here also!

mummyloveslucy · 07/04/2011 19:19

Thanks everyone, she's not the only one then. I'm hoping it is just her getting used to being at home. Hopefully she'll out grow this phase.

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