Posted by Susan47 on April 14, 2005, at 21:31:53
She's ten years old and has the worst temper I have ever seen in any human being.
I don't know what to do.
She frightened me today. She held my cell phone over the railing of my fourth-floor balcony and threatened to drop it if I didn't do what she was commanding me to do. She slams doors, punches walls, throws things, swears at me and I just can't go on anymore. I don't know what to do. Today I was at the point of calling the police and saying, help me I'm afraid of my kid! After she calmed down (and I don't know what to do when she gets like this, should I leave the apartment with my son? she gets in my face and won't let me walk away, you know?) Anyway a half hour later she's fine. She cries in my lap, we talk about it, and it's over. Done. And hour after that, she's sunny again.
What's going on? She's had counselling and her therapist said she's fine she's a lovely girl etc etc... my ex-husband's family had this happen when his sisters were my daughter's age and up into young adulthood. Those girls left home very very young and were in a lot of trouble. I don't want history to repeat. Can this be changed, and how?
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