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Hunni Bee 10:33 PM 05-18-2011
I have a certain four-year-old, whom I've posted about before. She's quite a handful, I think she may have some emotional issues, but I'm not sure.
I have to tell her four, five even eight times to do something. Normally I would never give directions that many times, before I helped them to do it. But if I do that with her, she goes into tantrum mode immediately and cries for 20 minutes, dry-eyed.
Today we were outside during pick-up time - she's sitting in the parking lot at opening time and is picked up 15 minutes before closing, over 11 hours. She and some friends kept climbing the fence. The others stopped after a couple requests. She keeps climbing with a little smile on her face. I asked her 3, 4, 5 times....took her hands off the fence and helped her down. She climbed right back on, still smiling. I took her out of the yard and made her sit on the steps until her mom came. She screamed and kicked until her mother arrived. DCM asked me what was wrong and I told her, she walked off without another word. She never addresses dcg's behavior.
I don't know what to do with her...TO doesn't work because she doesn't stay and screams out all of this dramatic stuff "pleeeeease, im sooooorrry, i wont do it again", so I look like mean old teacher
. Taking away things she likes is more trouble than its worth, because she just follows me around, wailing and pulling on my clothes. But she's got to follow my rules and directions...
I have to tell her four, five even eight times to do something. Normally I would never give directions that many times, before I helped them to do it. But if I do that with her, she goes into tantrum mode immediately and cries for 20 minutes, dry-eyed.
Today we were outside during pick-up time - she's sitting in the parking lot at opening time and is picked up 15 minutes before closing, over 11 hours. She and some friends kept climbing the fence. The others stopped after a couple requests. She keeps climbing with a little smile on her face. I asked her 3, 4, 5 times....took her hands off the fence and helped her down. She climbed right back on, still smiling. I took her out of the yard and made her sit on the steps until her mom came. She screamed and kicked until her mother arrived. DCM asked me what was wrong and I told her, she walked off without another word. She never addresses dcg's behavior.
I don't know what to do with her...TO doesn't work because she doesn't stay and screams out all of this dramatic stuff "pleeeeease, im sooooorrry, i wont do it again", so I look like mean old teacher
. Taking away things she likes is more trouble than its worth, because she just follows me around, wailing and pulling on my clothes. But she's got to follow my rules and directions...