DD3 is kind, loving, confident, and awesome.
Recently though, she's started responding very rudely, sometimes with knee-jerk negativity. She tries to boss us around and her tone can be very jarring, there’s a fair bit of feet stomping. Not all the time but it’s increasing in frequency.
We’re not authoritative or punitive parents. At home we are kind and respectful to her and each other.
She's settled, happy, an only child attending preschool (2 days) and we do playdates. We give her simple appropriate choices often: green/blue plate, walk or run out of the park, climb up to car seat or I pick you up, that kind of thing. Works really well and we hardly have pushback there anymore.
But it seems we have entered a new dawn of chat back!
Want to nip this in the bud though. I understand age appropriate behaviour so I don’t take it personally but it is starting to grate.
We’re not about to be drill-sergeants or anything, she is only little and I know there’s only so much she’ll grasp and it’ll take time. This is mostly about us setting a good foundation.
Hit me with your practical tips and scripts/wording you’d use when the rudeness happens please?
I find it really helpful to have go-to phrases!
Thank you x
PS: I already follow helpful Instagram accounts like Dr Siggie, Big Little Feelings, Big Life Journal but I find it hard to find specific posts relating to this. I’m also trying to limit social media where possible.