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[quote=Anonymous]My niece and daughter are the same age (8) and have always been very close. My niece has always been a very challenging and “wild” child and was recently diagnosed with ADHD, but my sister suspects there is even more going on than just that. The girls spend a good amount of time at my house, especially so I can give my sister a little break, but my niece is getting very hard to handle so I wanted to see if anyone has positive discipline strategies they can share since most of the time my niece flat out doesn’t listen, or has a mega meltdown in response to being told to stop doing something. I have asked my sister but she hasn’t been helpful because she is having a hard time handling the behavior as well.

The main issues are that my niece is incredibly active/energetic and I often find her climbing all over furniture and jumping off, which of course is a safety issue and I feel like I can’t leave them alone. She also constantly comes up with things to do that my daughter knows are not allowed, but she eggs her on to do them or just does them on her own - coloring on walls, “baking” weird concoctions, cutting dolls’ hair off, etc. Yesterday I found her in our pantry stuffing her face with snacks and throwing things all around.

Does anyone have any tips for how to manage these types of behaviors? Thank you so much.[/quote]

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