Defiant 7 yr old.

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Registered: 01-15-2007
Defiant 7 yr old.
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Wed, 06-06-2007 - 10:33am

Argh! Natalie was outside playing with the basketball. For some reason she brought the ball in the house. Why? I don't know, it's a rule that all balls stay outside. She was bouncing it and using it like a volleyball. I told her to take it back outside. Told her several times. Told her she will break something with it. So, on her way out to the front she tosses it up in the air one more time and loses control of it and it hits one of my many snow globes and breaks it. It was a small one yes but it was the one my brother gave to me for Christmas just after my dh and I got married. I think our first Christmas together. It has meant a lot to me cause he got it for me and he got it thinking of the cat I had at the time. The cat on the snow globe looks almost like the cat I had back them.

She started bawling at the time and came and hugged me saying how sorry she was. I sent her to her room. She is grounded from the basketball for the week now. Now I have glitter all over my hands cause I cleaned it up and I need to figure out how to remove the rest of the glass so I can keep the main part of it. I don't want to get the glass all over the floor by taping it to break it.

She had to bring it in the house when she knows it's a no no and she had to toss it up in the air one more time to prove she could cath it and had control of it. She does this sort of thing a lot.

Chelle

 

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Registered: 07-06-2006
Wed, 06-06-2007 - 10:48am
I'm sorry your snow globe was broken.

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Registered: 03-23-2007
Wed, 06-06-2007 - 11:00am
I certainly don't mean to sound like a know-it-all about girls but I am afraid that is one trait that tends to get worse as they get older.I have a 11 yr old girl and Oy! the stories I could tell!I also have 2 boys,and I just find that Dd was a little more defiant at an earlier age.I do agree about her feeling bad though,that's a start!
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Registered: 09-20-2006
Wed, 06-06-2007 - 1:10pm
My ds is 4 and he is already beginning to give me an attitude! Ugh! Funny how he doesn't talk to his dad that way.
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Registered: 01-15-2007
Wed, 06-06-2007 - 1:24pm

Yes, I have noticed this about my girls. Both of mine are sassy and defiant big time. My son is just now getting to that point and he's 9. It took him about 8 1/2 years to be this way. Now I have three doing it but he isn't as bad as the girls are.

Chelle

 

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Registered: 01-18-2007
Wed, 06-06-2007 - 1:33pm

Hugs!

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Registered: 03-23-2007
Wed, 06-06-2007 - 1:49pm
Yeah I noticed it too!The boys are gradual,the girls are like running into a brick wall!Lol!

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