Thursday 28 December 2017

Is my daughter being a spoiled brat? Or was this comment taken too seriously.


So, leading up to Christmas, I repeatedly asked my almost 4 year old what she was going to ask Santa for. Her answer was always the same 3 things, paw patrol lookout, PJ masks headquarters and a Fur Real Daisy cat.Christmas comes. She gets tons of presents including 2 of the 3 things she was asking Santa for. There were some presents she didn’t seem to excited for (but I’m thinking that was because she wasn’t sure what they were. We were at my moms where she couldn’t really start taking things apart). Then near the end of Opening gifts she said “oh, I didn’t get a pj masks headquarters”. We instantly said “excuse me!? You should be happy with the presents you got... a lot of little kids your age only get one or 2 presents and some get none at all!” We sat down and had a talk with her and that was the last we’ve heard of the headquarters. She said thank you many times for all her presents and the rest of Christmas was fine.The next day, I told her to pick toys to donate to make room for her new toys which she was also perfectly okay with. She’s continues to say thank you for her toys in the last couple of days since Christmas as well.Her birthday is in a couple weeks, and now thanks to this comment her nana refuses to get her anything for her birthday. She will be taking her to buy toys to donate instead. Which by all means is fine! But she’s making a massive deal of this one comment, like my daughter is a huge spoiled brat. She’s basically suggesting she get nothing for her birthday from anyone because of this comment.Is it a little ridiculous to take a comment from a 4 year old so seriously? She doesn’t really display any other spoiled behavior aside from not being the best at sharing her toys with her little brother and sister (which were working on and she’s getting better). If she asks for anything and we say “no”, there’s never a meltdown or anything, worst case maybe a “but why” but usually just “okay”.I certainly don’t want to be raising a spoiled brat. So what do you all think? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2leIGJf

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