She is 11, in year 6. She used to have bad tantrums, these have stopped but she still has a lot of anger inside her and when she gets upset will tend to lie in her bed saying she wishes she was dead, she wishes she wasn't alive. Maybe this happens about once every two weeks. Other than this she is pretty normal girl, she has loads of friends, she is doing well at school. She is pretty lazy and doesn't put much effort into much.
I have always been worried about her. I saw a psychologist once privately for two sessions One of the things she said was that 'what you are desribing is normal'.
When my husband and I discuss it the only things we can come up with are for us to spend more time with her. She will say that she wishes she was only child, that she will only have one child when she is a mum. She's the middle of three girls. I have always been aware of the middle child thing and we have always spent one to one time with her, doing brownie badges, playing games, taking her on trips. I don't think we've done enough.
She also tends to speak angrily to me a lot of the time and says she hates me, I find dealing with her really stresful.
Please help, anyone.