Apparently I’m Ruining Her Life!
Following on from my post on outside influences on children, Rachel came off with another cracker this week.
On Friday morning I was trying to coax her into eating her fruit salad before going to school. She was digging her heels in and refusing to do so. She wanted a biscuit and juice, I tried to have the junk food chat but she just wasn’t listening. So I told her that she would be getting nothing else to eat until the fruit was finished.
She then stood up, kicked the table and exclaimed “mother, you are ruining my life!”
I had to turn away so she wouldn’t see me laugh! I said “Rachel, you don’t even know what that means” she replied “yes I do, it means you are making me very unhappy”.
It turns out that a nine year old girl that lives in our street had said the same thing to her sister while Rachel listened last week. It obviously stuck, and now it is her phrase of choice when we are not pleasing her.
If this is what she is like at 4, how will we cope with a teenage version?
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That sounds like something my daughter would say. Drama, drama, drama!
And it’s just going to get worse and worse. Our’s at 6 now says CRAZY things and we’re like “WTH? Where’d she get that?” I get “are you blind?” or “I already know that!” or “I told you already if you’d listen!” There’s also the attitude too like slamming doors and rolling eyes now too. That’s why we call her Miss Priss!