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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give her strong consequences. She knows better.  Start with 3 days no electronics and let her know next time it will be 5 days.[/quote]

well, start by not listening to this terrible advice!

you can accomplish MUCH more than you think by setting up a simple set of house rules, and giving your daughter the ability to either earn tokens for following them, and a (small) consequence for not following the rules.  first you have to define very clearly the problem behavior.  "lack of empathy" is too broad and not age appropriate.  chose something concrete like "use kind words."  discuss with her so she knows what this means.  then you reward her for each day she doesn't use unkind words, AND you take a way a privilege on a day that she does.  if hte teacher agrees, she can also notify you about school, or implement her own school-based system.  the consequence should be small.  we saw major turnarounds in our son's behavior by just taking away the one show he watches every night.  [/quote]

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