6yr daughter and her bad behavior

Martina - posted on 04/29/2012

Sounds exactly like our 6 yr old daughter! ..

Kimberly - posted on 04/28/2012

She doesn't need counseling, she needs guidance. You are the parent and need to take full responsibility. She's just a child. This needs to be nipped in the bud now before her behaviour gets worst. You can ground her to her room, you can out her in timeout for 6 minutes as she is 6 yrs old. This kind of behaviour is unacceptable. Just the fact that she decides to just enter a neighbors house without anyone's permission, this child should not have been able to open any doors by herself. Put high locks.Take one day at a time and make it consistant,in rules. You don't ever have to put your hands on the child. Your actions and words should be more than enough. Guide her in the right footsteps.

Tempyl - posted on 04/20/2012

My opinion, and I am no professional, but the punishment has to be followed thru on. Warnings are good, then when she misbehaves again follow thru on the punishment that will effect her the most. And you have to be committed to holding the punishment. If you have to put her in the corner 20 times..... Do it. You can not give in. Set a timer for 10 minutes. She can't get out till timer goes off. this has to be away from everything else. They have to feel like they are missing something. If she gets up before the timer goes off. Put her back in the corner and restart timer. Do this 100 times if you have to until she stays the whole ten minutes. Every times she misbehaves you do this she will eventually give in. If you commit yourself to doing this and she knows this ill be the process every time she misbehaves she will eventually start thinking when you give her the warning. Trust me it works. It worked on my daughter. I realized it was me that was getting tired of the punishments. YOU have to follow thru on this process if you want success.

Michelle - posted on 04/19/2012

I'm hearing you Katie & would also like some advice as I'm thinking of getting my daughter counciling as well. My daughter is also 6yo and she has been getting into alittle trouble at school and a lot at home. At school it is always for concentration issues and not completing class work on time which she is capable of doing, talking, not listening, winding up other kids, saying mean things to other kids. At home she refuses to do what she is asked just about no matter what it is, always talking silly rubbish talk. I am at my wits end because it seems that nothing I do works. I have tried giving her special attention thinking maybe it is an attention thing I have tried punishing such as taking things away, taking away privileges, punishments, taking away things we were going to do, smacking, timeouts, the corner, even the 123 magic programme I use several times a day which use to work for yrs now failing. I have tried everything I can think of. When she is grounded she still acts it up. I feel like I do nothing but yell and I'm in a battle that I will never win. It is starting to make me feel more and more like a bad mother because of the way she acts and that I can't get her to stop. It also causes me worry that her little brother is now starting to follow her footsteps as she teachers him bad behaviour. I love her more than anything in the world but it is getting to the point that I don't really like her very much and I hate feeling like that. I don't know what to do. She has gotten really bad since she started yr 1 at school this yr. : (

Tigerlilly - posted on 04/03/2012

Have you tried Super Nanny's naughty step with warnings given first? Give her 3 warnings and get down to her level and explain to her - if by the third and final time she is still not listening, give her time out on the naughty step, naughty corner or naughty chair or whatever and keep following through with it and do not give in - just keep putting her there until she gets it and says 'Sorry' to you - believe me - it works!