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[quote=Anonymous]DD8 is awful to be around most of the time. I know kids whine and complain, but this seems extreme. The complaining and tantrums are nonstop. Sarcastic comments. Telling me to shut up. Screaming at me in public. To the point where at the park today, she was crying and throwing such a fit that a woman tried to intervene.

I feel like I’m living with the spoiled girl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I’ve tried all the gentle methods of listening, validating, ignoring, but all it does is get her more worked up.

At dinner tonight she yelled at me to shut up and I kind of lost it myself. I didn’t yell at her, but I had to excuse myself from dinner to go cry in another room and calm myself down.

When I got back, I told her I didn’t want to talk to her the rest of the night. That I would tuck her into bed, but otherwise I didn’t want to be around her and I wouldn’t be reading to her tonight.

Now she’s apologizing and trying to hold my hand but I just feel numb. She very obviously hates me, and I feel like 8 is very young to hit this teenage phase.

I don’t want to withhold affection but I just feel at my limit. I dread picking her up from school and I dread weekends because she’s just MEAN the entire time.

I think screens are part of the problem. I think she’s picked up a lot of her sarcastic commentary from YouTube, which her dad lets her watch as much as she wants. I’m really ready to throw all the screens out just to see if that helps.

Is this normal 8yo behavior? I see other moms going out and having fun with their daughters, and I could never do that because mine would just push buttons and be mean. [/quote]

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