Does anyone have a child who just cries over everything?

[thefroggy]

Dd does. All the time. She's 8 now.

She loses her favourite teddy (I dont mean lost, I mean he's in the house, probably left in the toilet) Screaming, crying...the works.

Call to her in the morning when she's not getting ready for school...screaming crying.

I tell her to go tidy her room, you'd think I was beating her.

Tonight she cried and cried after my friend had taken her to the pics and taken her to get a b/day gift. "I miss "

I actually got a call from headmistress a few weeks ago because someone had reported dd going into school crying every day for the first week. Dd said it was because she was nervous about going back to school after the holidays. She cried again before school today and said afterwards it was because she didn't like getting in line.

There seems to be no limit, and i'm getting pretty pissed off.

My dd1 is also 8 and is exactly as you describe. I just went flying up the stairs not less than an hour ago convinced she had fallen off top bunk and had terrible injuries owing to the yelping, screaming and histrionics, but no, her 4yo sister had borrowed a teddy bear off the end of her bed

I get that too dooin, screams that go through me, the times i've gone running thinking she's hurt just to find she's dropped a cake or some such bollocks.

I'm talking screams that make my blood run cold. The slightest little thing and she's in tears

what do you do when she does it?

Must be a girl thing; my DD (7) can have the some wonderful strops. She saves it all for home, never at school or where the general public can see her! I also have a number of friends with girls of a similar age - they all report the same thing.
We are pretty firm with her when she starts - No means NO, punishments are followed through and she has to apologise. We've had a pretty quiet weak.
I tell people she is obstinate, stubborn, opinionated, articulate and determined - she has all my best qualities.
Roll on the teenage years!!!

Normally? Give her a hug, reassure (sp) and try to explain that she's being a silly billy. Although tonight I admit I lost patience and sent her to bed.

maybe she is getting a bit too much attention from it?

i think that i would say to her, once you know it's nothing life-threatening, "dd i know you are upset but i can't speak to you sensibly while you are crying and scremaing. calm down and we can find your bear/ring your friend/etc etc"

has she always done it?

You're doing better than me Froggy. My default reaction has now become and eyeroll accompanied with "fgs dd1 it's only x. Get over it"

She has thisis, I know it sounds daft but as a baby she cried non stop, as a toddler she had one tantrum after another, kicked, punched, scratched, bit me...she repeatedly hit me so hard one time my arm was bruised badly and I think she was only about 2 1/2 then.

Ds was a lovely child...he's a grumpy teenager now but he never did the things dd does!

There is no hope for me then. Dd1 is 5, nearly 6 and already is exactly as op describes.

Dooin, that's what I actually said tonight because I was so bloody fed up with it.

It's the school thing that bothers me. I've already been called in...how does one explain that dd is just a bit of a crybaby? I honestly cant think of anything that could be bothering her.

Off the wall suggestion - cranial osteopathy? Popular in babies I know, but I do know older children that have had it to release internal 'tension'. Sounds bonkers I know but it seems to have helped ...