Are all 7 and 8yo girls this stroppy?

[girliefriend]

Or is it just mine??!!

I feel like I am living with a teenager, she has started to shout 'I don't care' when I ask her to do anything, she rolls her eyes at me, slams doors and I get a lot of 'For Gods sake' from her as well

In between times she can be the sweetest child ever but when she gets a strop on it is a nightmare.

This morning I ended up shouting at her as she was being so rude and have told her no more t.v until she can learn to speak to me nicely, although that just got a 'I don't care' in response.

Am now feeling bad that she went off to school without us making up and with both of us still feeling cross, flipping kids!!!

Just mine then

Oh well, since getting in from school she has been lovely again - seems to have completely forgotton this mornings tantrum!!

No, mine too. Has taken to deliberately turning her back on me and folding her arms when I ask her to do something. That or grunting loudly!

I feel your pain!

Yes they are all like this. And it gets worse once they are 9 nearly 10. In my experience.

Yep, sorry, my 9 year old is even worse! Currently drama queening over homework.

And if its not homework it's clothes or bedtime or what's for dinner or...blah blah blah

...or her hair, or her brother, or someone breathing in her vicinity... You get the picture!

Great - thanks for the reassurance

Well I stayed true to the no t.v rule tonight and God didn't I get grief about it, we had dramatics, tantrums, tears, pleading, sorry letters, the 'I love you so much Mummy - please let me watch t.v..' guilt trip!!

However I stuck to my guns and she survived a night without cbbc!! (She isn't a t.v addict btw, normally only allowed an hr between 4-5pm while I cook tea.)

Once she had calmed down and realised I wasn't going to back down she became lovely company once more, helped me make dinner, chatted lots about her day and then we sat and did her homework together!! Why is it I have to get strict on her before the nice side reappears