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Is year 6 particularly tricky for girls?

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MrsTawdry · 26/01/2015 20:50

My DD has seemed very miserable this term. She's usually happy and happy to go to school...she has two very close friends and they're not leaving her out. I know this...but she seems and says she is...sad a lot.

She finds maths hard but excels elsewhere...what is it? We're moving after year 6 so I thought maybe she felt down because she won't be following her friends to high school but she says she's very excited about moving and indeed, she knows the place we're going to very well and loves it...her Gran lives there as do other family members and it's lovely.

What can I do? Is this normal in year 6?

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JugglingLife · 26/01/2015 20:54

Hormones. That's it really. That's the excuse I give my Y6 little witch.

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MrsTawdry · 26/01/2015 21:08

I did think that. She shaved her legs yesterday without my knowledge! She did a good job...and I would have let her do it if I knew the hairs bothered her!

Is it normal for hormones to make them so snappy? And sad and dramatic?

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pippitysqueakity · 26/01/2015 21:12

Yes! And tears and over excited and newly sweaty and just about everything else.
(Try combining with menopause in Mummy, now there is a hormonal soup...

pippitysqueakity · 26/01/2015 21:12

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Hassled · 26/01/2015 21:15

Yes, it's normal. They're often a simmering ball of prepubescent rage and hormones at Year 6, and it seems to be peak "you're not my friend anymore" time.

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MrsTawdry · 26/01/2015 21:16

Oh it's DREADFUL! I had no idea! I'd heard about it all of course but couldn't quite imagine it!

What can I doooo? I thought about getting her some natural thing...I don't know...oil of evening primrose and cutting down her sugar intake.

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MuddhaOfSuburbia · 26/01/2015 21:18

pippity I'll see your teary over excited sweaty y6 DD/menopausal mum, and raise you....

TWINS

by the time we have all stabilised our street is going to look like those photos of the Somme after the troops withdrew. Mud, rubble and the odd stunted tree

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MrsTawdry · 26/01/2015 21:22

Muddha do their bad moods coincide or do they time them so you've a constant barrage of hatred and anger directed at them?

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Hassled · 26/01/2015 21:22

When DD was 11 I also had a two year old. Her tantrums were worse than the toddler's.
I don't know if supplements etc will help - probably worth researching.

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MrsTawdry · 26/01/2015 21:24

Directed at YOU I meant.

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MoreBeta · 26/01/2015 21:31

Yes. My DS1and DS2 went to what was essentially a girls school. There were only 4 boys in Yr 6. The girls were so vile to them at playtime the boys basically sat on a bench in the corner of the paying field for the whole year. It just seemed to happen overnight. Lots of bitching, falling out, tantrums and 'queen bee' behaviour.

Now in Yr 8 DS2 says its just as bad but by Yr10 DS1 seems to be enjoying the company of girls again.

pippitysqueakity · 26/01/2015 21:34

muddha...just...wow.
Good luck
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MuddhaOfSuburbia · 26/01/2015 21:37

MrsTawdry it's either directed at each other or to me- to be fair they don't gang up but take it in turns to hate my guts

I think personally that it's because school is like walking a tightrope every day- to keep the friends they have/not come to the attention of the Mean Girls- that by the time they get home they're like a pair of prepubescent pressure cookers ready to POP

do find weekends are better. And holidays too

ReallyTired · 26/01/2015 21:41

I think that year 6 is hell on earth for both boys and girls. There is relentless pressure from schools to perform well in key stage 2 SATs. (Which the secondaries ignore!). Its a big change moving from primary school to secondary. There is stress over secondary transfer because of leaving friends and not knowing which school a child is going to.

Clutterbugsmum · 26/01/2015 22:03

I also has a hormonal soggy mess. To the point her teacher ask if 'everything was all right at home' because dd1 kept crying one week day.

I'm lucky because when she at home she most of her time in bedroom because she wants to BEEEE ALLLOOONE.

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 26/01/2015 22:13

I've got a year 6 DD and yes, it's been interesting this year. We've got periods, we've also had shaved legs and armpits (although I was consulted first) and we've had lots of 'happy' tears - if it's sweet and fluffy, if it's vaguely sad, if it sparkles, then she cries. Luckily we haven't had tantrums, but she was never prone to them as a toddler either (we're a sulk and brood type family)

I have noticed though that she's got very clingy and also quite pushy in demanding attention from me. Luckily she's got two older brothers who are happy to interact with her still so it takes it off me a fair amount.

MrsCakesPrecognition · 26/01/2015 22:16

DD is the same. It was like the scene from "Kevin the teenager" - only it happened when DD turned 11yo.
I hate that she seems to unhappy and disengaged, but her foul temper makes it hard to feel too much sympathy. However, I have been implementing additional hugs and excessively long drawn out bedtime chats in which I reassure her that I too was grumpy and blue when I was the same age. At least we are still talking.

TeenAndTween · 27/01/2015 09:16

Speaking as someone with a y5 DD but also a y11 DD ....
Years 5-8 are the worst, peaking in y6&7.

cutestgirls · 27/01/2015 09:23

im recalling my days at that age, sure i gave my mom a run for her money. once heard the hardest part of raising children is potty training them and getting through their puberty years sane and normal. remember she is beginning to explore her environment, her changing body and its signals as well as fortifying her social position in school its quite challenging if you think about it.

dont have that age kids yet, but i know my older sis tries getting her DD (age 12) to talk by starting out, telling her about how her own day was, what annoyed her, who made her angry, feel sad or hurt etc. try it. your gonna have to tread the waters according to her beat though.
good luck

OldBeanbagz · 27/01/2015 09:24

Year 6, Year 7, Year 8. I'm just hoping it will stop soon before i'm completly grey haired!

Soexcitedforthisyear · 27/01/2015 12:06

Year 6 was hard, they've had enough of primary. They're sick of the site of each other and if you are in a sats factory it's boring. Year 7 seems fine so far and our secondary sets from day 1 according to SATS as well as CATS and we knew this so SATS did count

canny1234 · 27/01/2015 12:45

My year 6 girl has become much more demanding of my attention and temperamental.She has become obsessed with prettying up her bedroom and frequently retreats to her bedroom to read a book or go on her tablet and to get dressed/undressed.
Very little physical development so far though and no friendship issues thankfully.

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MrsTawdry · 27/01/2015 18:52

Exited We ARE in a SATS factory! The school is state but very academic...made the Times list this year too...so maybe the pressure is high.

canny mine also gets changed multiple times.

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Soexcitedforthisyear · 27/01/2015 23:32

The pressure is high in a Sats factory, by the end of year 6 the more able ones can do the level 5 papers with their eyes shut and the school can boast how well they have done but what they haven't done is the really useful stuff like learning how to do research, use independent thought and interpretation and to understand how to put together a project. That has been the biggest shock by far to my eldest in year 7.

bishboschone · 27/01/2015 23:47

My dd is year 6 and is grumpy . She is doing 4/5 ( not sure ) level 6 papers and it's worrying her even though she is able . I have put it down to this . She too wants to be on her own so I let her . She doesn't really want to be part of the family and doesn't enjoy our company anymore ..she has also just got braces so that isn't helping either !!

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