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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So we spend weekend running to sport game for kids, take them to a family party of their best friends Saturday night, take her to the toy store , but at night she is fighting with her sister. After asking her to be nice, or we own benefit with friends, I express exacerbation that she doesn't appreciate how much we do for her, and her response is 'well I didn't ask to go to the toy store ' (which is technically true as I was running an errand there, but she had fun and went home with some free knick knack)

She is crazy stubborn, probably highly sensitive (so is always ruminating, hangs back on new social situations), and generally a hard working kid.

But we feel she is really lacking in gratitude for what she does have (and maybe we aren't best models - I can definitely get frustrated as working parents always living in a little chaos short of enough cash), but more importantly we need to quash this back talk/sass and maybe tone down stubbornness

Is this part of being 10? Tween attitude? Or are we doing something wrong? [/quote]

Are you posting this because of what happened yesterday? Or is this an example of a larger pattern? If it's the former, I'd relax and just keep an eye on it. If it's the latter, please give some more examples of "sass/back talk" and how she is expressing a "lack in gratitude." [/quote]

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