
So I would like some advice in helping to teach my daughter to read the room and not be a constant annoying. She is six. She is super bright, friendly, assertive, but constantly noise making and bothersome to others.I’m going to recant a few anecdotes from our day, just today, but these kind of examples are pretty much par for course.Her dad took her to the library. There was already a good size group of children there playing with farm animals. They were sitting pretty quietly and playing in a way that didn’t disturb anyone else. She dove into the mix, gathers three horse figures and begins loudly neighing, snorting, spinning around in circles. The group of kids are looking at her in annoyance. She is trying to tell them how to play now, to lead their already established game into her preference of what she is doing. They ignore her, she persists neighing and snorting and being a bother. Her dad has to call her over and tell her to take it down 20 notches.At the playground later that day. She is still now in horse mode four hours later. Brought three horse figures of her own to the playground, and asks every child there to play horses with her. They all decline. She comes back and laments that no one wants to do horses. I say, it’s a playground, most kids come here to do playground things. If you want to play with others, do what they’re doing. Then it’s over. If she can’t do what she had in mind, she’s done, and sits waiting for us to leave. We were there for her, so we leave.In the car, I put on her choice of music. She bellows over it, I ask her to enjoy it for herself. She moves on to shaking a water bottle in the baby’s face. Trying to throw a blanket over the baby. Being corrected a dozen times. Telling me a thousand inane things. I Redirect her to quietly listening to her music. It lasts two seconds. Husband and I look at each other and exchange “the look”. The look that says, sigh.How do you deal with a kid that is always set to 12 out of 10? How do you help them to not be a constant annoying force upon everyone around them.. be it their own home or in public? via /r/Parenting http://bit.ly/2Qp7kVI
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