Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Love my daughter but her attention seeking annoys me to no end. Anyone else?


Hey parents,My youngest is 8 year old and one of the happiest kids you'll ever meet. However, lately she's gotten horrible about attention seeking behavior and I just can't deal with it. She seems to crave attention from other adults at an insanely high level. We'll go to public places and she'll act obnoxious to get people to look at her. Singing at the top of her voice, suddenly breaking out into dance moves, pretending to fall over, etc. Obviously I shut that shit down REAL quick. But she keeps trying to do it. If I'm talking with another adult she'll continually try to talk over me to say something like "Guess what? I can do the splits!". Like the cashier at Target cares. We go to someone's house and instead of playing with the kids she tries to hang out with the adults and interrupts with "Watch me do this!" or "Hey look at this cut I got on my arm a week ago". Can't tell you how many times she's been sent to her room/lost privileges/etc.Obviously this could be construed as her not receiving enough attention at home but I can GUARANTEE this is not the case. Her Dad and I spend a huge amount of time with her. We go to parks and play on the equipment with her, read with her, play board games with her, etc. In fact we are exhausted. She's also in sports and several activities where she interacts with tons of other people. She also gets much more attention from us than our other daughter, who's highly introverted and has no problem doing her own thing.Does anyone else have a child like this? What can I do? Wine only temporarily solves the problem. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2yFuBc4

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