Feral child
It's been a really rough couple of days with Miss V and I'm feeling the need to offload before I strangle her!!! She seems to have developed a really snotty "I'm smarter than everyone" attitude...
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As you said, she is quite bright - perhaps you should call her on it, and explain that it isn't showing great emotional intelligence by showing superior attitudes when it is a big world out there, and...
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"have you tried "you make me feel ____" phrases to her? Adults are humans too. " Every second sentence of mine is, "I feel... When you... Because.." (Never start a sentence with "you make me....."...
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Good luck Al! I think you definitely need to have the conversation both for your sake and also the other kids. I have a child who is usually the recipient of these kinds of comments (V would make...
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I find this a really interesting post. You make such a good point about kids acting as if they don't care because they cannot see a better way to deal with it, Helen. It may be a good opportunity to...
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"It may be a good opportunity to talk to TJ too about expressing his feelings, Al?" TJ is the one I am most concerned about. It wasn't too long ago that Miss V was helping him with his school homework...
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"but am struggling to find the line between addressing the issue vs creating an issue where he keeps saying there isn't one." I guess that is also why I thought of addressing this as a group. Maybe if...
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"I'm just thinking out loud and of course you know your family and what would work. I just love theorising (is that a real word???) about it because it's so different from our 2-person family!" I love...
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This thread is really interesting. When my girls were 3, my issues were they had shoved a pea up their nose or something! The way Miss V expresses herself is probably better than I do sometimes! I was...
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I've just decided - if she wants to talk and act like an adult who knows everything she can have the same responsibilities as an adult. We are going to make a chart of the things that adults...
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It must be frustrating for V when she watches people making what she perceives as really dumb mistakes and then when she tries to assist it doesn't go down well. So you are spot on when you said...
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"The fact that she is coming across as obnoxious is probably beyond her understanding" That's what gets under my skin so much - I am sure she has the capacity to understand how she is being perceived...
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'So far today Miss V will have to make her own lunch, do her own dishes and stay at the table when we go to the park. ' By the time she gets the hang of this and you have to stop dishing out...
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Miss V, from the kitchen, struggling to make herself avo on rice crackers while the rest of us were already at the table eating - "You know, I'm at a serious height disadvantage here." No response. "I...
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Well, I think I can safely say that Miss V is discovering the not so fun side of knowing everything! This morning she had to make her own breakfast, carry her own things around the market, buy her own...
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How's she going Al? Have you broken her yet or is she out hanging the washing on the line?
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Miss V, "Mr R! That's not how you do it! Didn't you know that....... That....... That was actually a really good try. Well done, Mr R." We're not quite there, but I think the penny has dropped and she...
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That sounds good Al. Although once she's stopped doing it, would you consider pretending she still is and inventing some consequences? I'm getting lots of giggles imagining your 3yo reading the paper...
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Helen... It isn't often that someone refers to our family and "sane" in the same paragraph!! Yesterday afternoon was great, with lots of her starting a sentence and deciding mid way through that it...
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