hope no one minds.
I currently CM a 6 year old girl who is from a single parent home. She live swith dad and she sees her mum every other weekend.Supposedly.
Anyway she is naturally very clingy to me, and craves my attenton the whole time,
She cries all the time over what seem to be trivial things "x stuck his tongue out at me" "Y is walking in front of me" "x has a stick in his hand" "y has pulled a leaf off the tree" (trust me these are all things she has cried over recently)..
She is always also crying over "injuries" "my hand is sore" "I have a paper cut(there nothing there)" "and the most consistent "there stones in my shoes/boots" thus we have to stop, sometimes up to 5/6 times on the way home to get them out of shoe, but invariably there is nothing there.
Now I have noticed that these incidents get worse if I have to tell her off for something, or if I have to tell one of the other mindees off, or if the other mindees are chatting a lot to me or if I am chatting to one of them.
it is almost as if she sees that as a way of getting my attention. On the days I have her, she gets my complete undivided attention from 4.30-6.30. DH has to come in and make dinner as the minute I try to start it (we feed her too) then she decides she needs help with something or wants a story. if I say "well I am busy making the dinner for all of us would you like to come into kitchen and help" she starts crying and playing up
So now you know the score, I am just wondering if there's anything I cna do to try and stop her being a bit less clingy, and crying so much. I know it must be really hard for her, what with her mum not being there al the time and only seeing her occasionally. I thought perhaps some of you ahd maybe had similar situations with your own children either yourselves or with childcarers.
I need to go to school now to pick up her and my other 2 mindees. I shall not be back on till after 6.30.
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Saltire · 07/02/2013 15:08
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