Our 8 yr old dd has always been strong willed but recently this has got to the point where she is wrecking our family life and we feel we have no relationship with her. She is a middle child with an older and younger brother.
She is incredibly jealous of her brothers however hard we try to be fair. She is very rude to both me and my husband and will not cooperate with us. She argues over everything, lies to us and physically hurts her brothers and destroys property.
At school, she is very bright and is always well behaved.
We have all been through a difficult time over the last few years - she has moved school twice in this school year due to job moves, my husband was made redundant and my mum was diagnosed with cancer so this explains why she may be acting this way but we don't know how to handle the behaviour.
Have read loads of parenting books - which only make me feel like a rubbish parent - and are now considering therapy but wondered if collected wisdom of mumsnet could help first. All suggestions gratefully received.