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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6.5 year old DD has recently started acting out and telling me that she hates me, hates the rest of the family and doesn't want to live with us any more. She's in a rule-testing phase and pretty much all interactions with her have been negative because her behavior has been so bad! I keep trying to praise the positive (on the rare occurrences) but to no affect. We even started a "good behavior chart", but it doesn't have many stickers.

Recently though, she's started saying she wishes she was never born and [b]generally seems depressed[/b]. When I ask her what's wrong she says she can't live in a place with so many rules. She has also said she doesn't even like the people she should love (and I named all of our immediate family and cousins, etc and she says in tears she doesn't like any of us). I don't think we have excessive rules at our house, just the usual stuff of not hitting/antagonizing little brother, listening when we ask her to do something (or not to do something), etc... Yesterday she threw a 15 minute tantrum because we asked her to wear socks when leaving the house (it's winter!)! I've asked her if something is wrong at school because this all started recently and seemingly suddenly, but she said everything there is fine. Before a few months ago, she was a really great kid. Not sure if this is a phase all kids go through around 6 or if there may be some bigger issue? [/quote]

I'd look into the depression thing. I showed a ton of signs of depression in early childhood and on up but my mom didn't get me help until I was about 16 and had already started in on some pretty self-destructive behaviors. [/quote]

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