Is anyone else’s 6yr just a complete arsehole. My 6yr old out is out of control and it’s making everyone in the house miserable af. We’re on a waiting list for a paediatrician but I doubt anything will come of it as she is the perfect child at school :(
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Have you tried setting harder boundaries?
Rewarding good behaviour and sanctioning the bad,?
If she is behaving at school she can follow rules and knows authority
Perhaps you need to be harder with her?
Can I ask why you going to a paediatrician,?
I am very firm in discipline and consistent with consequences, she’s aware of the rules but just doesn’t seem to care. I have also signed up for the triple P program to improve strategies but I already follow most of the big 5 of the course. I am also a teachers aide so it’s very frustrating not having idea of how to handle her behaviour. She will be seeing a paediatrician for behaviour management plus she has poor hair growth and has recently had what my GP has diagnosed as Melasma show up on her face so want to make sure there is no underlying health problems
Examples of her behaviour? It's hard to know whether this is typical or not without examples?
Screaming and tantruming to try and get her own way (lengthy tantrums, not just a few minutes, it has been known to continue for over an hour plus) can not accept the word no, refuses to help with anything ever, hits her brothers and sisters and has recently started to hit me as well, refuses any responsibility for her own actions and breaks the other children’s belongings. I know some of it is age appropriate behaviour but I feel it has crossed what is considered normal at this point
I’ve heard six year olds are arseholes to be completely honest.
I feel like school is a huge hurdle and adjustment. Can’t expect them to be perfect all the time. And everyone is going to find some ages harder to parent then other ages.
Hang in there
Not so much that I expect perfection but not arguing every second of the day would be nice too! School is a huge hurdle but she is in year one this year so I don’t feel like it is adjusting to school related. I think things are probably getting to me extra coz of school holidays and everyone being a bit out of routine. Just feeling so out of my depth at the moment