Daughter

My daughter is a nightmare. Her attitude sucks. She’s mean, bossy and rude. Everything with this child is a problem and I’m extremely exhausted dealing with her. Her dad isn’t around basically and I’m the primary caregiver for her. She is just combative and gives me a problem at every step getting easy for school cleaning up basically anything the requires her to listen. I’m so mentally exhausted I don’t even know what to do. She’s causing a lot of issues for me and younger kid is picking up on her actions as well. It’s killing me. I just want her to do the basics like getting ready for school cleaning up toys, getting ready for bed . very simple 8 year old stuff. I literally go out of my way to make her feel happy and loved and special. I’m at my extreme wits end. Any advice please I feel sick to my stomach thinking these things of my own child but she just causes me so much stress she knows what she’s doing and what’s expected of her. Any advice please 😭
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Hey, how old is she? I definitely remember being like that at around 4/5. My parents went through a divorce and I was moving around a lot. I was a terror, absolutely terror. I remember a lot during that time because my mom and dad would fight a lot. Maybe there is something going on at school? Is the father involved? Maybe take her to see a therapist, so you can get down to the root of it all. Not saying this could be the dad, but mine was really abusive towards me behind closed doors. Nobody knew it was happening and I didn’t know it was a bad as a child until my therapist found out.

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@Jennifer unfortunately that doesn’t solve anything, it only temporarily masks the feelings until they come back bigger and stronger.

I am so sorry you’re struggling with her behavior. I will tell you that one tip is not going to solve this. It’s a combination of what you do and what she does. Do you give in to her to much? Do you yell and scream? Do you have an encouragement system in place? Are their consequences for actions? I don’t want to overwhelm you, but all of these things contribute to either a cooperative child or what that is argumentative and disrespectful. I’m happy to set up a free call with you if you would like to talk further about this. Honestly, it’s a matter of your daily mental health and theirs. Let me know if you’re interested. 🙏🏼🥰

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