
My daughter (6 years old) can be a very considerate person and will try to help people and say nice things about people both to them and to others. However, she gets in these moods sometimes for days or weeks (especially if she is sick or tired) where she takes offense to everything, complains and whines about every single thing and blows things waaaay out of proportion (like crying because someone playfully stuck their tongueout at her or because she got a snowflake in her eye). During these times, I get accused of yelling when I raise my voice even slightly to be heard above whatever noise they're making, pushing her when I so much as put my hand on her back to keep her from backing up when I'm passing her in a narrow space, and 'making her upset on purpose' when I don't allow her to shirk her chores, or send her to her room for hitting her brother. Well yesterday, I volunteered to chaperone her school field trip. She was all bent out of shape because I didn't let her go first every time (I did let her go first once and the other kids got a turn to go first the other times) and because I told her (along with the other kids) to quiet down so I could go through the instructions. Twice, I gently guided her over so someone could pass and she accused me of pushing her, and one time I was trying to talk to her, but because I had pretty much no voice at that point (I picked a lousy day to have a sore throat) she didn't hear me when I called her, so I turned her shoulders so she could see me (probably about 15 degrees-not far enough she had to move her feet) and said what I was trying to say. Today she comes home and tells me that I made her so upset on the field trip because I 'hurt her' when I turned her that she cried on the bus back to the school. Her teacher asked her what was wrong, so she told her teacher that I hurt her, so her teacher sent her to tell the guidence counselor who was out, so another person helped her write a note to leave for her. I'm so upset about all this. I don't know what to do with my daughter. With this kind of attitude (where the world is out to get her), she's going to live a miserable life, which is not what I want for her. And on top of everything else, now a bunch of people at her school are going to think I'm this terrible abusive mother, and I don't want this hindering my ability to volunteer in her school. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2qNB7LG
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