Feel a bit depressed today after a big altercation with my stroppy youngest daughter this morning.
She was stamping around, refusing to get dressed and generally being a little back-chatting shit, I did my very best to stay calm and not rise to it but suddenly I lost it completely, saw red and started screaming like a mad woman. God knows what the neighbours thought!
I don?t know how to deal with her rudeness, I?m not sure she is even aware she is being rude to be honest, even though we
point it out every time, she seems surprised. Didn?t expect this at 8, it?s more of a teen thing. Someone here at work suggested it could be hormones!! Surely not!!
Walking to school afterwards I said ?So how do you feel after the dreadful morning we have had, as I feel thoroughly depressed
and there is no need for it to be like this?. She said ?It doesn?t bother me at all? and just skipped into school.
Maybe there is something wrong with her??? She doesn?t seem to get or be aware of other people?s feelings and emotions. I see her sometimes trying to ?get? it in certain situations but it is an effort for her, it doesn?t come naturally. She?s still very literal about everything.
For instance she wouldn?t go and comfort someone who was crying, it would unsettle her and she?d back off. Whereas most
of her peers at this age would try to do something about it.
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I don't know how to deal with stroppy, rude 8 year old DD
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sandyballs · 17/09/2009 12:25
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