My ungrateful 4-year-old

I have been getting very frustrated with my 4-year-old's behaviour recently, especially how ungrateful she is. Yesterday, we were going to the local indoor pool, as we needed to drop my husband's bike at the bikeshop close by. As we were leaving, my daughter asked, "Are we going to [really big pool in the city]?" "No," I said, "we are going to [local suburb] pool because we need to take dad's bike to the shop." Her response? "I hate that pool! It's terrible, you are ruining my life!" I replied that if that pool was so awful, we just wouldn't go, we'd drop the bike and come home. She changed her tune pretty quickly, but it's exhausting.This is just one example, but it is CONSTANT! When its a kindy (~preschool) day, she cries that it's not a home day, when it's a home day, she tells me I'm too boring, and she wishes she were at kindy. When she asks me to read her a book, and I do, she complains that I don't read 3 books. Nothing is good enough for her, and I'm so frustrated. This is not a spoiled child, indeed the opposite. We live in quite a small house (~63 m^2 or ~680ft^2 for a family of 4) so she is not overrun with toys - we intentionally don't buy much and belong to a toy library instead. Nearly all her clothes are second hand and books (her favourite thing in the world) are 95% library books, 5% our own. I know that she is only 4 and that gratefulness is not going to be her forte - all small children are ego-centric - but I'm just so over this whining complaining behaviour. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2DB68es